Category Archives: Keynesian economics

We Need More Productive Investment

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Consumers’ financial health has substantially improved in 2015, according to the Fed’s 2015 Q4 Flow of Funds report, plus, their real wages are rising because of lower inflation. And since consumer income drives aggregate demand—the overall demand for … Continue reading →

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Iowa and the Stand For Nothing Party

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Can the Republican Party survive the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries and either Donald Trump or Senator Cruz winning? Can the Grand Old Party survive and thrive on a platform that opposes every relevant issue today — … Continue reading →

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Why Does Bernie Love Denmark?

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is breathing fire on the campaign trail these days, including his most recent campaign speech that advocated the breakup of too-big-to fail banks. “We will no longer tolerate an economy and a political … Continue reading →

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Our Too Deflationary Times!

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly The answer to the inflation conundrum may be at hand, the conundrum that has kept the Fed pushing down interest rates since the Great Recession and recovery. Why aren’t prices rising with all the QE stimulus programs … Continue reading →

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An End to Austerity—Part II

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs The Senate voted on Tuesday to start talks with the House about a compromise highway funding measure. Lawmakers are facing a Nov. 20 deadline for renewing federal infrastructure funding. Both chambers have passed bills that would guarantee at … Continue reading →

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An End to Austerity?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs On November 5, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act, a new multi-year transportation authorization bill, by a vote of 363-64. It will refund the Highway Trust Fund, among other … Continue reading →

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The Fed Can’t Raise Interest Rates Soon

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Our Federal Reserve won’t be able to raise interest rates at all this year, or maybe even next year, says Marketwatch. Why? Because the EU Central Bank just announced they are increasing their Quantitative Easing program (QE), … Continue reading →

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Who’s To Blame For the Great Recession?

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Why has economic growth been so slow since the Great Recession? This is the question haunting many economists these days. Second quarter 2015 real GDP growth (after inflation) was just 2.3 percent six years after its end. … Continue reading →

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Greece’s Great Depression

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs This may seem facetious some 6 years into recovery, but many policy makers don’t seem to understand the severity of the Great Recession, or its consequences. It is the major reason why Greece, and many other Eurozone countries … Continue reading →

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What Would Save the Euro?

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Now that Greece has voted NO on the latest European Commission-European Central Bank-IMF proposal (the so-called troika), will Greece stay in the Eurozone? If so, Greece may save the euro. Why is this choice even necessary when … Continue reading →

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