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About Popular Economics Weekly

Harlan Green is editor/publisher of PopularEconomics.com, and content provider of 3 weekly columns to various blogs--Popular Economics Weekly, Financial FAQs and the Mortgage Corner.

LUCKY LOSER: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. A new book … Continue reading →

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Retail Sales Slowing

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Breaking News: The Federal Reserve just announced it’s first rate cut of 0.50%, which lowers its Fed Funds rate from 5.25% to 4.75%. Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for August 2024, adjusted for seasonal … Continue reading →

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Immigrants Drive Republicans Crazy!

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call The stakes are enormous if Republicans succeed in removing most of the estimated 11 million undocumented workers (only half of which are from Mexico and the Latin countries), and cut legal immigration in half, as they have promised to … Continue reading →

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HOW I LEARNED TO TRAVEL

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

A Memoir By Sherry Keith How I Learned to Travel, available on Amazon, is more than a travelogue, it’s an adventure story of a life of travel lived to the fullest, with an insatiable curiosity about new peoples and places. … Continue reading →

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Inflation Still in Decline

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, the same increase as in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the last 12 months, the all items … Continue reading →

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No “Art of the Deal”

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call “It’s implicit in a lot of what people write, but it’s never explicit–or, at least, I haven’t seen it. And that is that it’s impossible to keep him focused on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, … Continue reading →

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Who Killed America’s Middle Class?

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs A report from the Pew Research Center found that, for the first time since the 1970s, families defined as “middle income” are in a minority in the US – squeezed from both ends by an enlarged poverty-stricken group … Continue reading →

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Antonin Scalia’s White, Male Legacy

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing is a shock to die-hard conservatives for good reason. He was the bastion and spokesperson of the originalist interpretation of the Constitution, which meant any law had to divine the original … Continue reading →

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Economy Has Landed–Part II

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Fed Chairman Powell finally admitted the U.S. economy has made a soft landing at this year’s Jackson Hole Federal Reserve Conference. “The labor market is no longer overheated, and conditions are now less tight than those that … Continue reading →

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Why No Recession?

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs I said last month we know why the US economy is still growing. Consumers keep spending, and the unemployment rate, though rising, is just 4.2 percent. The second revision of second quarter economic growth confirms this as well, … Continue reading →

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