Mase: Economics and Finance

“It’s a question of courage or actually facing the issues, not being in denial, accepting the truth, accepting the reality and then ...

“European leaders’ blueprint for a closer fiscal union to save their single currency left the onus on central bankers to address inv...

“The now inevitable restructuring of eurozone debt…” So writes Jim Millstein, Chairman of Millstein & Co. and former chief re...

Greek prime minister George Papandreou cancelled the referendum.  Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy called Papandreou back to the “shed...

The first response of world financial markets to the eurozone package produced early Thursday morning was positive.   The second respons...

The news out of Rome: “ Silvio Berlusconi has salvaged a compromise agreement on economic reforms with his coalition partners that comme...

In my last post I wrote about the role that Italy might play in any solution to the European sovereign debt crisis. (See http://seekingal...

It seems to be boiling down to this.   Italy and its prime minister Silvio Berlusconi are the evolving focus of any acceptable solution t...

News is leaking out that the “haircuts” on European Sovereign debt are going to be greater than imagined just several weeks ago!  ...