Author: John Mason

I would like to recommend two more articles on the growing move to greater regulation. Both appeared this Saturday morning. The first by John Authers, “Politicians look to enter another Faustian pact,” appeared in the Financial...

“President Obama on Thursday will publicly propose giving bank regulators the power to limit the size of the nation’s largest banks and the scope of their risk-taking activities.” This from the New York Times...

“I cannot help thinking that the central bankers are escaping very lightly in the post-crisis dust-up. For while incentive structures in banking exacerbated the credit bubble, they were a much less potent cause of trouble than...

The air is heating up when it comes to the subject of banking regulation. The only advice I can offer those considering changes in the regulatory environment is “be careful.”The main reason for this caution?John Bogle, the...

The growth of the monetary has slowed significantly in recent months. This, of course, does not mean that the significant concerns over the $1.0 trillion in excess reserves in the banking system have evaporated. By no...

Debate seems to be picking up about the Federal Reserve exiting its current policy stance. Last week Thomas Hoenig, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and Charles Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank...

In the last few days we have seen a ton of headlines and articles talking about how President Obama is going to tax the major banks of the country (including US branches of foreign banks) in order to recoup the bailout funds...

The economy is recovering. The areas that seem to show the most life are those sectors that have had sufficient debt relief so as to be able to move forward. The big banks are moving out in a very robust fashion, just how robust...

Smaller banks continued to struggle, balance sheet-wise, in the fourth quarter of 2009. Data have just been released bringing us through the last banking week of the year, December 30, 2009. These data come from the H.8 release...

A headline in the New York Times, “Walk Away From Your Mortgage!”Why not?The best remedy for the current economic malaise? Since there is too much debt, let’s all just walk away from our debt.And, if the New York Times is...