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Retail Sales, Consumers Healthy For How Long?

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Consumers now power more than 70 percent of economic activity with the slowdown in manufacturing. Consumers are keeping this economic recovery afloat. There is no question this is because rising incomes and plenty of available jobs have raised … 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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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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Answering the Kennedys’ Call to Promote Greater World Peace & Freedom

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Introduction I was one of 88,000 wide-eyed, mostly white, middle class students that came to hear President John Kennedy speak on March 23, 1962 in Berkeley, California to commemorate the 94th anniversary of the University of California’s founding. We wanted … Continue reading →

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The Art of Negotiation

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs This column comes from a chapter in my forthcoming book, Answering the Kennedys Call to Promote World Peace and Freedom, a history of public service and community building by my own and more recent generations. This chapter documents … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong With Capitalism (Revised)?

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Winston Churchill once said, “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to … Continue reading →

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ANSWERING the KENNEDYS CALL: Birth of a “Livable” City

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

It is extremely difficult to form a new city in California, or any other US State for that matter. The studies required to justify taking jurisdiction away from a county government really means taking it away from what is in … Continue reading →

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ANSWERING the KENNEDYS CALL FOR PEACE

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Rebuilding of Local Communities! Where does the rebuilding of local communities that creates a sense of healthy community itself really happen? At the local level, whether it be in neighborhoods, towns, or cities. It is everywhere residents find a … Continue reading →

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Will 2019 Be Year U.S. Begins to Reunite?

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly vox.com Wonder of wonders, is New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks becoming a neo-Keynesian, New Deal economist? This is the term coined for those younger economists, such as Nobel economists Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and George … Continue reading →

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Our Loneliest Generation?

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys Call theatlantic.com Much of my forthcoming book, Answering the Kennedys Call; Solutions in Public Service and Community-Building for the Future documents how we can rebuild the broken communities and sense of isolation that is afflicting so many … Continue reading →

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