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- Should Banks Be Lending, Now?
- John M. Mason submits: Banks aren’t doing a lot of lending these days. Why not? The Federal Reserve System has bent over backwards dumping liquidity into the financial system. The United States Treasury Department has provided the banking industry with a lot of new ‘capital.’ Why aren’t the banks’...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Is Citigroup's Collapse a Sign of the Banking Times?
- John M. Mason submits: Banking is a commodity business. Banking deals with information…I am holding $100.00 of yours in something called a transaction account…I am holding your IOU for $1,000,000.00. Whereas, historically, these sums had to do with a physical quantity…something like gold…now all banking is basically conducted in...
- External links 2009-01-15
- AIG and Bailouts: Welcome to the Real World
- John M. Mason submits: “If there is a single episode in this entire 18 months that has made me more angry, I can’t think of one other than AIG. AIG exploited a huge gap in the regulatory system.”These words were spoken by Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of...
- External links 2009-03-17
- The Making of Goldman Sachs
- John M. Mason submits: The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs, by Charles D. Ellis, is an interesting read, although not an easy one. It is not an easy read because the book is not systematically constructed and so one does not read the book ...
- External links 2009-03-21
- Are the Banks Telling Us the Truth?
- John M. Mason submits: On the front page of the Financial Times this morning we read the disconcerting headlines, “’Tarp cop’ to investigate whether banks have ‘cooked their books.’” See here Neil Barofsky, special investigator-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), is “seeking evidence of wrongdoing on the...
- External links 2009-04-13
- When Jumping on Bandwagons, Take Care
- John M. Mason submits: The Financial Times printed excerpts of an interview with Duncan Niederauer, the Chief Executive of NYSE Euronext. (See NYSE chief cautious over March rally.) In the interview he stated that the recent rally in the stock market was being driven by short-term traders trying to...
- External links 2009-04-16
- Blaming Bankers When Government Is Really at Fault
- John M. Mason submits: It is becoming clearer and clearer what it means to have government involved in the affairs of banks and businesses. All of the initial talk was about the “moral hazard” presented by government bailing out the private sector. This means that in the future banks...
- External links 2009-04-24
- Why Is Banking System Sitting on its Hands?
- John M. Mason submits: It’s time for another quick look at the United States banking system. Whoops! Nothing happening there. Are they still alive?Federal Reserve Bank Credit has increased by $1.2 trillion over the past twelve months. What has increased in the banking system? Excess reserves in the commercial...
- External links 2009-06-26
- Is Treasury's TARP Debt Already Monetized? Part II
- John M. Mason submits: My post from Friday June 26 contained the first part of this discussion. Today I would like to continue the discussion and there are two reasons for doing so. The first reason is to understand just what the Federal Reserve has been doing over these...
- External links 2009-06-29
- Book Review: The House of Dimon, by Patricia Crisafulli
- John M. Mason submits: The book The House of Dimon, by Patricia Crisafulli (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009) is about Jamie Dimon, the current CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Company JPM. The author of the book, Patricia Crisafulli, has very...
- External links 2009-07-10
- CIT's Debt Issues Show Why the Economy Won't Be Picking Up Any Time Soon
- John M. Mason submits: CIT is an example of the kind of problems still facing the economy. CIT has taken on legal counsel in order to determine whether or not it should go into bankruptcy. The problem, the company has $2.7 billion in debt coming due through year end...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Banking Sector Stays Quiet
- John M. Mason submits: There is good news and bad news from the banking sector. The good news is that all is quiet. The bad news is that all is quiet. In terms of the goods news, “quiet is good” because there have been no new “discoveries” of bad...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Bank Failures Way Up
- John M. Mason submits: Friday, bank failures for the year reached 77. In January or March of this year people started projecting that we may make 100 by the end of the year. I think that is as sure a bet as you can get these days. Now, we...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Credit Market Debt: A Return to Pre-Crash Practices?
- John M. Mason submits: Credit market debt increased by only 3% from the end of the second quarter of 2008 to the end of the second quarter of 2009, a total of roughly $1.5 trillion. Of course, the primary story concerns the shifts in borrowing that took place during...
- External links 2009-09-29
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- The Reign of Uncertainty in Financial Markets
- John M. Mason submits: The most dominant factor operating in markets at this time, domestic and international, is uncertainty. Yes, the price of oil is down. The price of gold and other commodities is down. The dollar is stronger. In addition, questions have been raised…like has the dollar reached...
- External links 2008-08-26
- The Fed and the Summer of 2008
- John M. Mason submits: It’s time to take a quick look at what the Federal Reserve has been doing this summer - just as a check. Operationally, the Fed has done business, as usual. During the summer months, people take money out of the banking system for vacations and...
- External links 2008-09-07
- The Obama Stimulus Plan and the Dollar: Is There a Connection?
- John M. Mason submits: All eyes, right now, are on the forming Obama administration and the economic plan they are constructing. We get the word that we can expect fiscal deficits in the neighborhood of one trillion dollars and that we can expect large deficits for several consecutive years....
- External links 2009-01-12
- Deficits and the Dollar's Declining Value
- John M. Mason submits: 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 international financial community doesn’t like government deficits and tends to believe that a lack of fiscal discipline will...
- External links 2009-07-05
- The Fate of General Motors' Rick Wagoner
- John M. Mason submits: Rick Wagoner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors GM, will resign as a part of the agreement with the federal government in which the company will receive additional federal aid. General Motors is a turnaround situation; it is not a restructuring exercise. The...
- External links 2009-03-30
- Book Review: Fool's Gold, by Gillian Tett
- John M. Mason submits: I must admit, I really liked this book, “Fool’s Gold” by Gillian Tett. Ms. Tett runs the global markets coverage for the Financial Times of London and has been named the 2008 British Business Journalist of the Year and...
- External links 2009-06-13
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