Joseph Mason arrived at LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business in July as the Hermann Moyse Jr./Louisiana Bankers Association Endowed Chair of Banking in the finance department.Mason has also proved to be popular with national news outlets seeking answers to their questions about the financial crisis. He’s been quoted by Bloomberg, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, Fox Business News, MSNBC and National Public Radio.Mason, who left as an associate professor of finance at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business in Philadelphia to come to LSU, has addressed the Senate Banking Committee, the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee and the Federal Reserve Board and has advised the Government Accountability Office and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.