Category Archives: Politics

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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Consumers Barely Solvent

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs I said last month we know why the US economy is still growing. Consumers have kept spending. The second revision of second quarter economic growth confirmed this when Gross Domestic Product growth jumped from 2.4 to 3.0 percent! … Continue reading →

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Equality Is Good for Everyone!

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a promise at this year’s Democratic Convention. She would create programs that give every American the opportunity to better themselves. “I see an America where we hold fast to the fearless … Continue reading →

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Why Is This Election Still a Tossup?

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call What is the reason Republicans have become the party of anti-intellectuals? The danger is that it may drown out any intelligent discourse about the most important issues of our day. It’s driving at least one of our … Continue reading →

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Designing A New City

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Chapter Thirteen Goleta Old Town 1995 Flood Many of us believed that a re-design of Old Town Goleta would be an ideal location to practice some of the precepts of True Urbanism, or Smart Planning, that could aid in the … Continue reading →

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Is This Another Upswing?

Posted on August 15, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Something is going on in the American culture and psyche, a change that I believe will return us to a more optimistic era of hope and possibilities. I see what Pulitzer prize-winner and Political Scientist Robert Putnam (author … Continue reading →

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Let’s Make Healthcare More Equal!

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Healthcare is back in the news, and Republicans still don’t get its importance as an election issue in its continuing efforts to repeal Obamacare, the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted that I wrote about in 2017 … Continue reading →

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Let’s Make America More Equal Again!–Part 2

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Piketty-Saez Why did our income inequality begin to worsen in 1980, as can be seen from the above graph? The Arab-OPEC oil embargo of 1973 was the first indication that Big Business under the newly created Business … 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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