Mase: Economics and Finance

When is the last time you heard that an American President was lectured to? Mr. Obama…it’s time to change teams. If you want to have any cha...

As European financial markets seem to be stabilizing, it is time to look again at the value of the dollar. After the heat over the sovereign...

Former Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker spoke yesterday at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. All week I had been hearing commen...

The headlines of the day: “European Leaders Call for Crackdown on Derivatives” ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/business/global/10swaps.h...

One of the things that bothers me about all the talk concerning the re-regulation of banks and other financial institutions is that it is “f...

The report from the Federal Reserve yesterday was positive. The headline in the Wall Street Journal was typical: “Fed More Upbeat, but Keeps...

“It is very important to the United States that we have a strong dollar.” So said the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Yes, Paul O’N...

There is a brutal way to grade administrations on their economic policies: look at what foreign exchange traders do to the currency of a cou...

The Federal Reserve shocked the financial markets yesterday. The Fed released the results of its just-ended Federal Open Market Committee m...