Category Archives: Weekly Financial News

How Low Can Interest Rates Go?

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Calculatedriskblog Why are interest rates so low—not just in the US? It’s been below 0 percent in the northern EU countries and Japan for years because there is little worldwide inflation, which means there’s not sufficient demand … 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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Manufacturing, Foreign Trade Faltering

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs US manufacturers grew in July at the slowest pace in three years thanks to festering U.S. trade disputes that have hurt exports and undermined the global economy. It was the lowest number since August 2016, as the FRED … Continue reading →

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Economic Growth Is Slowing

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs BEA.gov Gross domestic product, the official report card on the economy, grew at a 2.1 percent annual pace from the start of April to the end of June, the government said Friday. GDP slowed from a 3.1 percent … Continue reading →

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Why Are Home Sales Declining?

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Weekly FRED WASHINGTON (July 23, 2019) – Existing-home sales weakened in June, as total sales saw a small decline after a previous month of gains, said the National Association of Realtors®. While two of the four major … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Main Street?

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FRED The main reason we have suffered from historically slow growth and stagnated wages since the Great Recession is in large part due to so-called trickle-down economics, the fallacy that concentrating most of the largess of economic … Continue reading →

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It’s Up To the Consumers!

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Consumers are feeling good enough to keep the US economy from sinking into recession at the moment. The consumer sentiment survey edged up to 98.4 this month from 98.2 in June, according to a preliminary reading from … Continue reading →

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Great Retail Sales!

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Econoday.com Retail sales rose in June for the fourth month in a row, quieting concerns that the trade wars and weaker manufacturing output would also drag down consumer spending. The most surprising strength in the report was a … Continue reading →

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Why Are Worry About Low Inflation?

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Reuters.com Almost everyone, including Fed Chair Powell, is worried about the low inflation rate.  It’s usually nearing 4 percent at this late stage of an economic recovery, not the current 2 percent if the US economy were … Continue reading →

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Why the Huge Jobs Report?

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQS MarketWatch The unemployment rate edged up to 3.7 percent from 3.6 percent as more than 300,000 people entered the labor force in search of work, the Labor Department said Friday. That has confounded those that see slowing economic … Continue reading →

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