Author: John Mason

There is good news and bad news from the banking sector. The good news is that all is quiet. The bad news is that all is quiet. In terms of the goods news, “quiet is good” because there have been no new...

There is a brutal way to grade administrations on their economic policies: look at what foreign exchange traders do to the currency of a country. This has been a test of political administrations around the world since the world...

I still feel that the yields on long term Treasury issues and the value of the United States dollar are tied together. I have believed for some time now that long term interest rates will trend upwards over the next 12 months...

Amid everything else going on, we still continue to look for signs of a recovery. This weekend I spent some time looking at the investment side of the economy to see if I could pick up any sign of life on the capital spending...

Although analysts have detected “Green Shoots” in the economy signaling the possibility that there may be a recovery occurring sometime soon, it is my belief that we will need to see some signs of life in the banking...

Does economics work?A lot of people seem to be questioning the validity of economics these days.My answer to this question is an emphatic yes! Economics does work!It is only when we forget the basic principles of economics that...

The recession seems to be ending. However, many people do not feel that the recovery will be very robust. (See my post “Is the Recession Over?” http://maseportfolio.blogspot.com.)The crucial claim in the near term...

For the third month in a row the index of leading economic indicators rose. This is the first time this has occurred since 2004. And, it gives us some sign that maybe the economic recession that we have been in since December...

The two basic measures of the money stock continue to grow at rapid rates. The broader measure of the money stock has continued to grow at a relatively steady pace. In the fourth quarter of 2008, the M2 measure of the money...