Mase: Economics and Finance

Two pieces of news today that go along with my earlier post about the pressures families are facing in the United States. ( http://s...

Happy New Year! I have spent a good portion of the last week and a half reviewing my perception of the foundational philosophy undergirding ...

John Maynard Keynes, after 1917, wanted to achieve full employment for England, but also for other major countries in Europe and the western...

The New York Times contains the headlines, “Fed is Expected to Discuss More Ways to Revive Economy.” (See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/...

This morning there is a series of articles in the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal titled “What Should the Federal Reserve Do Next...

When I was studying economics, the idea that an economy might face a “liquidity trap” seemed absurd. Basically, the concept of the liquidit...

Talk about a fundamentalist preacher! Paul Krugman continues to rely upon his inerrant interpretation of the dogmatic Keynesian worldview a...

China seems to be determined to continue to peg the value of its currency against the dollar. Then it points its finger at the United State...

Another commentary on the state of the dollar, well worth reading, is that written by Martin Wolf and presented by the Financial Times this ...

“A nation’s exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy.” Paul Volcker The value of the United States dollar is heading ...

One of the questions that has arisen from the posts I have put up over the last several months has to do with my statement that the internat...

The discussion continues for one more post. I ended the last post with these words: “The hope is that as the banking system works through i...

It is still too early to think that we are near or past the bottom of this economic downturn. However, in my mind, we are in the “working o...

A new concern about the economy has surfaced recently. This new concern has to do with the changing structure of the economy and the impact...

As the Obama Stimulus Plan becomes more and more of a reality, many different people are asking many different questions about it. To me, t...