Mase: Economics and Finance

Last Friday, December 9, I ended my post with this concern: “So much was made of the role that Angela Merkel was playing in the effort to ge...

Since the end of June 2011, excess reserves held by commercial banks have declined by about $107 billion. (Remember in August 2008 w...

There is still too much debt around.   The fact that there is too much debt around is a result of fifty years of credit inflation a...

PIMCO’s founder and co-chief investment officer Bill Gross presents an interesting perspective on the US government’s policy of credit in...

Should there be a QE3 or not? This seems to be the debate now going on given the sluggish performance of the United States economy.  ...

For the past two years or so, my prediction for the cumulative debt of the United States government over the next ten years has been in t...

Recently I have written about how the Fed’s injection of funds into the banking system has gone over seas because that is where the profi...

This economic expansion is now in its twenty-fourth month.  It is one of the weakest expansions on record.  And, it seems to be going ...