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- Auto Bailouts, Mortgage Debt and the Economy
- John M. Mason submits: I have tried to stay out of the auto-bailout thing but I find that I need to add my two cents to the issue. I have done three successful turnarounds in my professional career and have consulted on quite a few more. It is from...
- External links 2008-12-11
- 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
- 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
- Falling Dollar: Finally Front-Page News
- John M. Mason submits: The front page of the Financial Times captures the concern that has been expressed by this writer for at least the last four years. Today we see “Obama’s critics pounce on falling dollar as fears grow over currency:” . I don’t believe the focus is...
- External links 2009-10-08
- What Does the Future Hold for the U.S. Dollar?
- John M. Mason submits: Another commentary on the state of the dollar, well worth reading, was written by Martin Wolf and presented in the Financial Times Wednesday.Wolf begins by stating that, “it is the season of dollar panic.” He then specifically lists two parties, gold bugs and fiscal hawks,...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Toward an Exit Strategy for the Federal Reserve
- John M. Mason submits: Interest continues to grow about how the Federal Reserve is going to remove all of the reserves that it has injected into the banking system. The articles are getting personal now. See, for example, the article in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday morning that actually...
- External links 2009-11-03
- We Have Fannie and Freddie; Is Feddie Next?
- John M. Mason submits: Will the Federal Reserve System join the ranks of other government public supported agencies like Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE? One could argue that they are on the verge of such ignominy. by John M. Mason
- External links 2009-11-11
- The Importance of Economic Discipline
- John M. Mason submits: There was an interesting article inside the Wall Street Journal Thursday morning comparing the fortunes of Brazil and Argentina. (See “Argentina Falters as Old Rival Rises”) In the article, a research paper published in Argentina is quoted: “Since the middle of the last century, Argentina’s...
- External links 2009-11-12
- The Myth of the Strong U.S. Dollar
- John M. Mason submits: “It is very important to the United States that we have a strong dollar.” So said the United States Secretary of the Treasury. by John M. Mason
- External links 2009-11-13
- How People are Using Their Money and What It Says About the Economy
- John M. Mason submits: It is instructive to take a closer look at how people seem to be handling their money. Obviously, people are not spending much, although the Federal Reserve sure cannot be faulted for not trying to jump start consumer and business spending. The monetary base, the...
- External links 2009-11-30
- 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
- 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
- The Fed Moves to Monetize
- John M. Mason submits: The Federal Reserve shocked the financial markets yesterday. The Fed released the results of its just-ended Federal Open Market Committee meeting and the response was immediate — stock market indices went up — and the value of the dollar went down!The reason — the Open...
- External links 2009-03-19
- 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
- How the Fed Chaired the Dollar Crisis
- John M. Mason submits: We live in a global economy. And, unless we destroy the global economy that now exists the way the world destroyed the first global economy starting with the 1914 conflict and proceeding through the next 55 years or so, we will continue to face the...
- External links 2009-05-21
- 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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- Economic Outlook: Bracing for a Rocky Road?
- John M. Mason submits: 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 these problems, but his son’s administration was not so lucky. Yes, things started unraveling early in 2007 with...
- External links 2008-09-08
- Quidel Corp. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from the line of Zarak Khurshid from Caris & Company. Please proceed, sir. Zarak Khurshid - Caris & Company Thanks. Hi, Caren and John; impressive results there. John Radak Thank you. Zarak Khurshid - Caris & Company...
- Earnings calls 2008-07-28
- The Debate over the Stimulus Plan
- Our optimist, Professor Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin, sees a bold investment that came not a moment too soon. Our skeptic, Garett Jones of George Mason University, smells a boondoggle. Follow their debate and decide for yourself who's right…When the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
- Articles 2009-03-17
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