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Building Community at Home

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Fulfilling the third goal of my Peace Corps service, “to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans,” wasn’t as easy to do. My PCV service was implementing a rural community development … Continue reading →

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What is Normal Inflation?

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs I have found support for my contention that the Fed should be done with raising interest rates and in fact drop them sooner rather than later, or we will see a full-blown recession. Campbell Harvey, a Duke University … Continue reading →

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A Guest Opportunity For Podcasters

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call About Harlan Green § Harlan Russell Green is 2023 Winner of the Peace Corps Writers’ Publisher’s Award Jul 31, 2023 § Harlan Russell Green (Turkey 1964–66) 2023 Publisher’s Award Building Community: Answering Kennedy’s Call, Harlan Green’s memoir … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Inflation?

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FREDppifinaldemand What happened to the inflation problem? The latest wholesale inflation data show the Fed has more than succeeded in its campaign to tame inflation. The wholesale Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand in wholesale goods … Continue reading →

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Big Rise in Q1 Economic Growth

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly BEA.gov Economic growth in Q1 2023 was much better than pundits and economists predicted. GDP growth rose from its second estimate of 1.3 percent to 2.0 percent growth in the first quarter, largely because consumers spent more. … Continue reading →

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US Inflation In Faster Decline

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner The Whitehouse Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) has come out with a study that compares US inflation to European inflation, and finds that ours has come down faster, much faster, in fact. It found that so-called ‘harmonized’ … Continue reading →

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Single-Family Construction Surging

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner I said last week that higher new home sales and rising homebuilders’ optimism foretell a strong summer sales season if builders and existing-home inventories don’t run out of housing stock. We are now seeing more single-family construction … Continue reading →

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No More Inflation?

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs FREDppifinaldemand The Federal Reserve has announced its first rate pause since it began to raise short term rates last year. But it threatened to raise rates twice more this year after a six week pause to study the … Continue reading →

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Building a ‘Livable’ Climate Change Coalition

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

CHAPTER ELEVEN Old Town’s Revival Chapter Eleven is an excerpt from my memoir that discusses tools needed to form a community consensus. Our effort was dedicated to redevelopment of Old Town Goleta, prior to forming the new City of Goleta. … Continue reading →

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Huge May Employment Report

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch How can 339,000 jobs have been created in May when a recession is supposed to happen later this year? And the unemployment rate have risen to 3.7 percent from 3.4 percet last month, confounding all the … Continue reading →

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