Mase: Economics and Finance

The United States budget deficit will reach $1.48 billion in the 2011 fiscal year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The respons...

I got on a Michael Douglas kick this weekend because his new flick “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” was coming out in the theaters. I, of c...

This seems to be the major question asked by most commentators in most media outlets. Is it going to be Spain? Japan? The U. K.? Italy? ...

When a person or an organization is disciplined, they usually have plenty of options…many of them good ones. When a person or an organizatio...

Is this what a liquidity trap looks like? A liquidity trap gives one the feeling that the monetary authorities are pushing on a string. The...

The New York Times has it right this morning. There is an absence of leadership in this country. See the lead editorial, “Absence of Leade...

This is the third of three posts in which I aim to present the outline of my vision of where the economy is going into the fall. The first,...

This is what it all boils down to… Saturday, the Wall Street Journal put it on the line. In an editorial titled “Bernanke’s Market Week”, th...

In my post of Thursday, May 29, “Finance, Credit Cards, and the Fed: Three Comments” I made reference to “the loss of respect for the field ...

This post is in response to the request of “Second Thoughts” that was posted on April 30. Thank you (and others that have responded to my p...