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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.

Housing Starts Up, Recession Worries Over?

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs The best indicator of a looming recession is to watch how consumers behave. And this will be a record year for travel on the ground and in the air. So, would consumers continue travelling if they saw financial … Continue reading →

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Building Community at Home

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Fulfilling the third goal of my Peace Corps service, “to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans,” wasn’t as easy to do. My PCV service was implementing a rural community development … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Inflation–Part II?

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly We can also look at the behavior of wholesale prices to see if inflation has been conquered. The Producer Price Index has been at or below the Fed’s target 2 percent since May 2023. It’s the cost … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Inflation?

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs What if there’s too little inflation? That’s actually the definition of a recession. It seems unlikely at the moment and inflation is still a major upset for consumers. But it could happen if the Fed doesn’t ease up on … Continue reading →

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Why Not A Return to the ‘Roaring Twenties’?

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner “The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Recession-Part II?

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly We will have to wait longer for a recession. October’s Jobs report showed even the unsettled labor strikes didn’t make much of a dent in the labor market. The usual suspects—leisure activities, healthcare, and a booming construction … Continue reading →

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Our Budget Deficit Isn’t the Problem

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Harvard Economics Professor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Tuesday during an event staged by the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party-aligned think tank, that the U.S. budget deficit, which came in at $1.7 trillion in … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Recession?

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Is waiting for the next recession becoming a useless guessing game? Maybe even the event itself has less meaning these days when conditions can change so quickly. We have declining existing home sales yet surging new-home sales … Continue reading →

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Housing Must Be Saved

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Realtors are loudly crying that holding interest rates at the current high level for a prolonged period is destroying the housing market., I said recently. Existing-home sales are now at the lowest level since the Great Recession, … Continue reading →

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Too Little Growth a Danger

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Rather than worry about too much inflation still in the pipeline, we should worry about too little economic growth going forward, if we take Chairman Powell at his word in his latest speech at a recent economic … Continue reading →

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