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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
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