Author: John Mason

Could there be a glimmer of life in bank loans at Small Domestically Chartered Commercial Banks? The latest figures released by the Federal Reserve on the Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States gives...

The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank are all keeping interest rates exceedingly low and are continuing to engage in “quantitative easing.” The central banks have claimed that they...

Yesterday, I discussed what I saw as the reasoning behind the strategy the Federal Reserve is building to reduce the massive amount of excess reserves that it has injected into the banking system. The basic strategy seemed to be...

Interest continues to grow about how the Federal Reserve is going to remove all of the reserves that it has injected into the banking system. The articles are getting personal now. See, for example, the article in the Wall...

New financial regulation is on the horizon. As with the health care program, the Obama administration is providing very little unified leadership as to where it really stands and, as a consequence, there is a multitude of plans...

Bloomberg put up a headline this morning that I found eye-catching: “Stock Market ‘Bubble’ to End, Morgan Stanley Says”, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=a.YErMIwMYKA. Ruchir...

When the history of the recent financial crisis and Great Recession is written, the basic conclusion that will be presented is that a financial crisis can be ended and a major recession turned around if the government throws...

Several of the aggregate economic indicators are indicating that the economy has bottomed out. Industrial Production seems to have hit a bottom in June 2009 as the year-over-year rate of decline on a seasonally adjusted basis...

After I posted my comment on “Do we Really Need to Break up the Banks?” yesterday (http://seekingalpha.com/article/168514-do-we-really-need-to-break-up-the-banks), I remembered an anecdote from my time in the Finance...

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech the other night and set off somewhat of a storm…at least across the pond. It is a discussion that needs to be heard here in America. (For a full text of the...