Mase: Economics and Finance

The European sovereign debt unpleasantness continues. Muddle, muddle, muddle… The European finance ministers want automatic sanctions agains...

Interest rate spreads on European sovereign debt jumped to new levels yesterday. On 10-year bonds, Greek debt rose to 942 basis points over...

“Another phenomenon on display (at the G-20 conference over the weekend) was China’s willingness to continue fighting on its own in the G-20...

We have been given Quantitative Easing 2 (QE2) by the Federal Reserve System in the United States and now we are facing Stress Tests II (ST2...

“The U. S. dollar is recapturing its role as the primary safe-haven currency, eclipsing the yen and the Swiss franc, as tensions in Korea an...

Are the financial markets the WikiLeaks of economics? Politicians and economists and business people ignore what financial markets are sayin...

Paul Krugman says it all this morning in the New York Times: “If Spain still had its own currency, like the United States—or like Britain, w...

More and more people are becoming aware of the fact that the problem in Europe is one of solvency and not liquidity! Yesterday, the Europea...

The dust is clearing around the recent negotiations in Europe concerning the “bailout” bill and what we are seeing, at least to me, is unner...

The name of John Maynard Keynes became prominent once again with financial collapse beginning in 2008 and the “Great Recession” that followe...

One of the most important conclusions reached in modern open-economy macroeconomics is captured in what is called “The Trilemma.” The princ...

The financial markets hate uncertainty. It is the unknown that creates uncertainty and unexpected new information often creates uncertainty...

Every day, it seems as if people are given more reasons to distrust financial institutions and the leaders of those financial institutions. ...