Category Archives: Politics

Where are World’s Most Livable Cities, and Why?

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Noozhawk.com I first attended the Goleta Dam Dinner on its 10th anniversary in 2019 that was held at Lake Los Carneros on a dam built long before the City of Goleta, California was formed. It made me … Continue reading →

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Q2 GDP Growth Slowing—What Else?

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly BEA.gov The 2nd estimate of second quarter Real Gross Domestic Growth slowed to 2 percent, from 3.1 percent in January. It looks like GDP is slowing to the average rate that has prevailed since the end of … Continue reading →

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Budget Deficits With the Laffer Curve

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Wikipedia There is an economic theory of sorts that helps us to understand why our political parties can’t agree on how to grow an economy that benefits most Americans. It’s called the Laffer Curve, reputedly first drawn on … Continue reading →

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Will Corporations Become More Responsible?

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Tradingeconomics It is a sea change in economic thinking when corporate CEOs that belong to the Business Roundtable sign a Statement of Purpose to consider more than maximizing their profits, when maximizing corporate profits at the expense … Continue reading →

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United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call The day after last Thursday’s DOW Index plunged 800 points, President Trump Tweeted a request that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu block Congresswomen Ilhan Omer and Rashida Tlaib’s visit to Israel and the West Bank. His action … Continue reading →

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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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