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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.

Has the Recession Begun?

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Wikipedia It might not matter when the so-called infection curve begins to flatten, or the epidemic “washes away”, as President Trump has said. The economic damage has already been done, due in part to the lack of … Continue reading →

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How Do We Fight COVID-19?

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly St.LouisFRED Economists are beginning to predict the worst due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has become a worldwide pandemic.  Former Fed Vice-Chairman Alan Blinder said recently on CNBC that a recession may have already begun this March; … Continue reading →

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Nobelist Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Amazon Thinking, Fast and Slow; what else should Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman be noted for, the son of Lithuanian Jewish parents fleeing the Russian Empire in the 1920s who grew up  to the sound of marching black boots … Continue reading →

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No Job Losses Due to Coronavirus—Yet

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch The Labor Department’s February employment survey took place in the middle of February, before the coronavirus began its worldwide spread. So we will have to wait for March employment figures to know its impact on employment, … Continue reading →

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The Wages of Fear in a Recession—Part II

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs FRED Is the U.S. economy already in recession? How can it be with more than 80 percent of the adult workforce employed? But that isn’t how recessions actually begin, as portrayed in the above St. Louis Fed unemployment … Continue reading →

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The Wages of Fear In Distrustful Times

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Goldman Sachs The Wages of Fear is a famous 1950s French film starring Yves Montand about four men that agree to carry a very dangerous cargo of nitroglycerine, the main dynamite ingredient, through a remote South American jungle … Continue reading →

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor??

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly DailyKos The maxim that we are our brothers’ keeper has always been one of Christ’s teachings that Christians should follow, just as Mr. Rogers asked his TV viewers to be his good neighbor, and Martin Luther King, … Continue reading →

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Housing Market (Still) Alive and Well

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner FRED-ICAP All is still well with residential housing into this new year. Both housing starts and permits exceeded predictions, with starts now at 1.57 annual units, and permits at a 13-year high of 1.551 million units annualized. … Continue reading →

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What Is A More Livable Community?

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner pccfarmlandtrust.org There is a budding national movement to build more affordable housing with the growing housing shortage (and homeless) problem. It is just one more facet of the so-called Livable Cities movement begun in the 1980s that … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Honest Abe?

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Wikipedia What happened to honesty in personal behavior and in politics is a good theme to discuss on this Presidents Day that commemorates our two Presidents most touted for their honesty—Washington and Lincoln? They were celebrated for … Continue reading →

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