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Booming Home Sales Create Housing Shortage

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Booming Realtors’ existing-home sales are showing there is a very severe housing shortage with record sales and a record low housing inventory. Santa Barbara Realtor Jim Witmer said the demand for Santa Barbara homes is huge and … Continue reading →

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Is the Age of Narcissism About to End?

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call Are we nearing the end of what historians and psychologists have called the Age of Narcissism, an era that has spawned populist governments and closed borders, the breakup of traditional families and communities, and the election … Continue reading →

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Unemployment Declines, Modest Hiring

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch The economy regained 661,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell for the fifth month in a row to 7.9 percent, the government said Friday. It’s the smallest advance since a recovery began in May, with August … Continue reading →

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The Costs of an Extended Covid-19 Pandemic

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly COVID Tracking Project I have been asked many times about my thoughts on the direction of our fall and winter economies, but been hesitant to give specific answers because firstly, it depends on the November election. Republican … Continue reading →

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Will We Repeat the Spanish Influenza Pandemic?

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call Early in Bob Woodward’s just released best-seller, Rage, President Trump said he knew by February that COVID-19 could act much like the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19. It was estimated to have killed 675,000 Americans and … Continue reading →

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Who Owns America?

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs seekingalpha.com Kurt Andersen’s new best seller, Evil Geniuses, The Unmaking of America (2020, Random House), gives a terrific history of the current Gilded Age we are suffering through that has largely benefited Big Business and its enablers. Just … Continue reading →

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What is This Election Really About?

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call #eisenhower Now is the time to cure our record income and wealth inequality, since it’s not only adversely affecting the most vulnerable during this pandemic—including our mostly low-income essential health care and public safety workers—but overall … Continue reading →

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Our ‘Whac-A-Mole’ Recovery

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs FREDinitialclaims Initial jobless claim for the week ending were slightly up at 1,416,000 for the week ending July 18, which means that the reversals of business openings as COVID-19 infection rates soar again have flattened the wrong curve—applications … Continue reading →

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Who Says There’s No Leadership?

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call http://www.nippon.com Critics of the Trump administration and its Republican Party enablers have it exactly backward when they say the federal government isn’t leading the effort to control the novel coronavirus pandemic. They have in fact been … Continue reading →

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Who Says There’s No Leadership?

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call http://www.nippon.com Critics of the Trump administration and its Republican Party enablers have it exactly backward when they say the federal government isn’t leading the effort to control the novel coronavirus pandemic. They have in fact been … Continue reading →

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