Mase: Economics and Finance

I keep reading that some people want to have the Federal Reserve begin a new round of quantitative easing…QE3. I see nothing in t...

The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond closed at 3.48 percent yesterday. Just a little over five months ago the yield on the 10-year Treasur...

On December 21, 2010, I made the following brash prediction:” my view of long term Treasury yields for 2011 is up, with the 10-year Treasury...

Yesterday, I attempted to lay out how I thought 2011 would play out in terms of the value of the United States dollar. In “The U. S. Dollar...

Why is the rate of inflation so low in the United States when the government has pumped huge amounts of debt into the country and the Federa...

The ten year Treasury yield hit 4.00% yesterday, a level not hit since June 6, 2009. Then one has to go back to October 31, 2008 for the nex...

Yesterday, I posted a report on the strategy of the Federal Reserve to exit its position of excessive monetary ease. (See http://seekingalph...

Amid everything else going on, we still continue to look for signs of a recovery. This weekend I spent some time looking at the investment s...

Lots of transactions went on in central banking over the past month or so, not only in the United States but in the UK and Europe. Quantita...

The Federal Reserve is trying to hold down long term interest rates. The reason? To stimulate economic activity and encourage credit flow ...

Treasury Secretary Paulson gave a press conference yesterday and indicated that things had changed…that the focus of the bailout effort woul...

Is the United States flying into a period of economic turmoil that one can only describe as a Bermuda Triangle? Financial institutions are ...