Monthly Archives: July 2024

Plenty of Available Jobs!

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs As a precursor to July’s unemployment report, the Labor Department’s JOLTS report that measures the number of job openings—jobs waiting to be filled—has just come out. The number of openings is still the highest in decades, per the … Continue reading →

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Make America More Equal Again!

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Piketty-Saez I have a suggestion for a campaign motto I first wrote about in a 2017 Huffington Post piece that could give a boost to VP Harris’s presidential campaign. Instead of Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.” … Continue reading →

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An End to the Greater Lawlessness?

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call I believe we are at another turning point in history, a return to an era of lawfulness that one political party has ignored since the deaths of JFK, Brother Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And … Continue reading →

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Much Improved Q2 Economic Growth

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Today’s second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 2.8 percent, double first quarter’s 1.4 percent, which will give a huge boost to confidence that no recession is imminent, but also enough ammunition for the inflation hawks that say … Continue reading →

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More Greater Lawlessness–Republicans’ Climate Denial

Posted on July 23, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call NYTimes One year ago, on August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law – the largest investment in clean energy and climate action ever. “The Inflation Reduction Act is a transformative law that … Continue reading →

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The Greater Lawlessness–Republicans War on America

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as Vice-President means the chaos of Trump’s first administration will continue on steroids, as Trump will have a VP who will assist him in continuing to tear down one institution after another … Continue reading →

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Retail Sales Falter

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Fed Chair Powell has said it again. Second-quarter economic data including last week’s consumer price report “do add somewhat” to confidence that inflation is heading down to the central bank’s 2 percent goal at an Economic Club … Continue reading →

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Prices Are Falling!

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Today could be historic for inflation watchers. It’s the first time since July 2022 that retail prices as measured by the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) have declined. It will be history making and effect the financial … Continue reading →

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Q2 Economic Growth Is…?

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Estimates of 2024 second quarter economic growth have been all over the map, but I will attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. Firstly, GDP growth is mostly dependent on consumer spending, which makes … Continue reading →

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The Irrelevance of MAGA Republicans

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call This is another Huffington Post column I wrote in 2017 at the beginning of the Trump presidency. It’s about the irrelevance of his policies for most Americans that another Trump presidency would repeat, as well as further … Continue reading →

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