Mase: Economics and Finance

The Great Recession is over. Remember, the recession ended in June 2009 getting close to two years ago. To many, it sure doesn’t feel like ...

Why would financial institutions want to put home mortgages on their balance sheets right now? Answer: they really don’t want to add mortgag...

During my professional career, three things have seemingly dominated the American culture. First, the labor unions; second, the manufacturi...

Earlier this year a friend of mine and his wife got a mortgage on their new home. (As of today, they have only been married three hundred an...

I have not heard one elected official or government bureaucrat in Washington, D. C. apologize to the American public for all the problems th...

This may sound like a ridiculous headline, but it appeared in the Wall Street Journal today. (See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405...

The final point I would like to make in this series is that you cannot build and maintain a rigid financial regulatory system based on the a...

Will the Federal Reserve System join the ranks of other government public supported agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? One could argu...

Try as hard as it might, Bush 43 could not postpone the consequences of its actions until it January 20, 2009. Bush 41 largely escaped. So...