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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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Chapter Eleven – Building a Livable Community

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Old Town’s Revival In revitalizing Goleta’s Old Town District, we realized our efforts might apply to a livable city as well.  As recently as 2005, the Institute of American Architects defined such a community as. . . “broadly speaking, a livable community … Continue reading →

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Building Community Answering Kennedy’s Call Book Review

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Popular Economics Weekly

Amazon.com Building Community, Answering Kennedy’s Call by Harlan Russell Green A Peace Corps Writers Book, 2022. This memoir will take members of ERFSA back to the “good old days” when you might have been protesting the war in Vietnam or … Continue reading →

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Is It Time to Worry About Deflation, and a Recession?

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs CNBC The Fed is beginning to ease its purchases of Treasury and Mortgage-backed securities in its push to raise interest rates and lower inflation, a policy called Quantitative Tightening (QT) as opposed to the various Quantitative Easing efforts … Continue reading →

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The Peace Corps and Rotary International

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

In the special 60th anniversary edition of WorldView, Shaylyn Romney Garrett, co-author with Robert Putnam of The Upswing: How American Came together a Century Ago and How We can Do It Again, posits a policy prescription for the administration “that would help … Continue reading →

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How Should We Remember 9/11?

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

ANSWERING KENNEDY’S CALL BuildingCommunity I wanted to remember 9/11 when I wrote my memoir on the Kennedy era that has just been released. It was also a time of busted communities, a Vietnam War that split Americans. It was an … Continue reading →

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Goleta’s Dam Dinner Doesn’t Disappoint and Brings Record Turnout

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

More than 500 People Attended Scenic Event at Lake Los Carneros Dam The return of Goleta’s Dam Dinner after a three-year hiatus brought a record turnout this past Saturday, August 20, 2022, to the Lake Los Carneros Lake dam. More … Continue reading →

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