Category Archives: Politics

Trade Protectionism = Recession?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FRED BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has threatened unspecified “necessary countermeasures” if Trump’s planned tariff hike goes ahead said the AP. And it followed up the threat by devaluing their Yuan by more than 7 percent against … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing, Foreign Trade Faltering

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs US manufacturers grew in July at the slowest pace in three years thanks to festering U.S. trade disputes that have hurt exports and undermined the global economy. It was the lowest number since August 2016, as the FRED … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Main Street—Part II?

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FRED Corporate responsibility is back in the air with a vengeance; not only from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders who constantly remind us on the campaign trail that corporate misbehavior has tilted the “playing field” of … Continue reading →

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Economic Growth Is Slowing

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs BEA.gov Gross domestic product, the official report card on the economy, grew at a 2.1 percent annual pace from the start of April to the end of June, the government said Friday. GDP slowed from a 3.1 percent … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Main Street?

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FRED The main reason we have suffered from historically slow growth and stagnated wages since the Great Recession is in large part due to so-called trickle-down economics, the fallacy that concentrating most of the largess of economic … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing slows as Trade Wars Quicken

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Trade wars are not really winnable anymore—at least the way President Trump wants to conduct them—or any wars for that matter. This is because we no longer live in a win-lose world where the strong are able … Continue reading →

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The Presidential Debates—Will Democracy Survive?

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Washington Post Much of the media lament over the first Democratic Presidential debates was whether the Democratic Party had moved too far to the left on immigration and healthcare—whether it was about decriminalizing Central American immigrants … Continue reading →

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How to Provide More Housing For Everyone?

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

ANSWERING THE KENNEDYS’ CALL thelundreport.org I said in an earlier column “that part of the solution to the housing and homeless crisis has to be the responsibility of governments.” But the Silicon Valley giants Google, Apple, and Washington State’s Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Who Pays For the Tariff Wars?

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly It’s unfortunate that we have to keep returning to the most unpleasant of topics— higher taxes. But that’s what the White House is doing with their various Chinese, Mexican, and European tariffs. They seem to be waging … Continue reading →

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Saving Capitalism—Part II

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz’s plea to save capitalism is important for a number of reasons; foremost is the survival of liberal democracy itself. Modern liberal democracies that we have known since WWII cannot survive if we cannot … Continue reading →

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