Mase: Economics and Finance

The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and others, are all desperate to keep interest rates from rising. The ...

There has been lots of words and press spilled on the recent revelations about who the Federal Reserve “bailed out” during the recent financ...

One thing we learned in the 1990s and the 2000s is that there can be asset bubbles in the economy without growth in either money stock varia...

I would strongly recommend you read the “Weekend Interview” published in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday. The interview is with Robert M...

Two months ago I was hoping I was seeing some “Green Shoots in Smaller Bank Lending,” ( http://seekingalpha.com/article/220685-green-shoots-...

The Federal Reserve has two basic problems right now. First, those running the Fed don’t know what they are doing. Second, they are doing a ...

Something new this week: the Fed started to see how the financial markets would accept its strategy for reducing the size of its security po...

The one thing that seems to provide an explanation for a lot of the things going on today is the continued weakness of the banking sector. I...

This is the third post in a series designed to review the progress of the Federal Reserve in its efforts to exit the position it has created...

Credit market debt increased by only 3% from the end of the second quarter of 2008 to the end of the quarter of 2009, a total of roughly $1....

A surprisingly large amount of attention has recently been given to the slowdown in the growth rate of the M2 measure of the money stock. A...

There are three major factors that will contribute to the timing and the strength of the economic recovery. First, there is the ability and...

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 O...

There are three preliminary indicators that the banking system is coming along on its way to recovery. First, there is the “letting go” of...

Thursday afternoon the Wall Street Journal came out with a startling headline: “US M1 Fell $16.2 B In June 29 Week; M2 Fell $36.2 B.” (See ...