Category Archives: Politics

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 →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Economy, Politics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Politics, Weekly Financial News | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Keynesian economics, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Politics, Weekly Financial News | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

More Greater Lawlessness–Republicans’ Climate Denial

Posted on July 23, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call NYTimes One year ago, on August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law – the largest investment in clean energy and climate action ever. “The Inflation Reduction Act is a transformative law that … Continue reading →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Greater Lawlessness–Republicans War on America

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as Vice-President means the chaos of Trump’s first administration will continue on steroids, as Trump will have a VP who will assist him in continuing to tear down one institution after another … Continue reading →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Irrelevance of MAGA Republicans

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call This is another Huffington Post column I wrote in 2017 at the beginning of the Trump presidency. It’s about the irrelevance of his policies for most Americans that another Trump presidency would repeat, as well as further … Continue reading →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Keynesian economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Fewer Jobs, Lower Rates?

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly June’s unemployment report was weaker than expected. It looks like the labor market is slowing enough to convince the Fed that interest rates should come down. Not only fewer nonfarm payroll jobs were added to payrolls, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Consumers, COVID-19, Economy, Housing, housing market, Keynesian economics, Politics, Weekly Financial News | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment