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Guns Kill People—Really!

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” has been the credo of the NRA, gun lobby and most Republicans since the 1980s when gun manufacturers came up with automatic pistols, so that guns could kill more people. … Continue reading →

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The Art of the Scam

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Did you have that queasy feeling; the ‘sick to your stomach’ feeling, when it was announced that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States?  I did. How could someone so obviously unqualified to be president … Continue reading →

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The Art of the Scam

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Did you have that queasy feeling; the ‘sick to your stomach’ feeling, when it was announced that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States?  I did. How could someone so obviously unqualified to be president … Continue reading →

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Why the Greater Lawlessness?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly We knew as far back as Nixon’s Watergate that the Republican party harbors a lawless tendency when it suits them. Why else would President Reagan engineer the illicit Iran contra arms deal with the Ayatollah Khomeini, or, … Continue reading →

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Why are Americans So Unhealthy?

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Americans have just avoided a health care disaster in voting down the Senate’s ‘skinny’ Obamacare Repeal and Replace bill. Even though maintaining most of the taxes to pay for the Medicaid portion, it would have made insurance coverage … Continue reading →

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What, Too Many Job Openings?

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs We are now seeing real evidence of the need for more working adults, if the US economy is to continue to grow. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, said April job openings … Continue reading →

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Republicans About to Make ‘America Last’

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord on climate change is symbolic in more ways than one. In his call to make America first again, he could set us back decades in bringing cleaner air and reducing … Continue reading →

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TrumpCare–The Un-American Health Care Act

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly It’s incredible. Why have House Republicans just voted for a health care bill that only does one thing in the words of MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, primary architect of the Massachusetts single-pay healthcare program and Obamacare? He … Continue reading →

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No “Art of the Deal” in 100 Days

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly It’s 100 days into the Trump Presidency and looking more and more like President Trump is no more effective at running the country than his business interests. His book, The Art of the Deal was meant to … Continue reading →

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A Greater Lawlessness—On Tyranny

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Have we elected a tyrant as President? It’s hard to believe the clownish behavior and blatant lies of President Donald Trump could make him a tyrant, but author and history Professor Timothy Snyder says he has all the … Continue reading →

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