Tag Archives: Great Depression

Bidenomics Is Working!

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Brad Delong Why are Republicans denigrating Biodenomics, the economic policies passed by a bipartisan congress since 2021 that is causing 3 percent GDP growth and 4.0 percent unemployment, with 8 million job vacancies looking for workers, and inflation back … Continue reading →

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Why No Recession?

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs I said last month we know why the US economy is still growing. Consumers keep spending, and the unemployment rate, though rising, is just 4.2 percent. The second revision of second quarter economic growth confirms this as well, … Continue reading →

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Equality Is Good for Everyone!

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a promise at this year’s Democratic Convention. She would create programs that give every American the opportunity to better themselves. “I see an America where we hold fast to the fearless … Continue reading →

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Consumers Are Still Solvent?

Posted on August 17, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FREDretailfoodservices My recent blogs have been questioning how long consumers can keep shopping for good reason; their debts have been piling up, which seems to mean they have been able to borrow enough to stay in the … Continue reading →

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The Path to Economic Recovery

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Calculated Risk There is a path to economic recovery from the worst recession since the Great Recession—and maybe the Great Depression. But it means escaping from the free market economic orthodoxy that has prevailed since 1980, and which … Continue reading →

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Ending Our Economic Civil War—Part II

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call MarketWatch President-Elect Joe Biden can call a truce from the ongoing Red vs. Blue states economic civil war with just announced picks of his economics team, including Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary and the economic advisors. … Continue reading →

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When Will Our Economic Civil War End?

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call @WIL_inequality When Joe Biden becomes our new President in January 2021 and signals an ambitious ‘new’ new deal to rebuild America, the economic civil war that reached a high point with this presidential election has to … Continue reading →

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The Winter Pandemic is Coming

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs COVIDTrackingProject There is little doubt that this fall and winter will show a surge in pandemic illnesses and deaths. States in the Midwest and South will hurt the most, but also some northern states like Montana, North and … Continue reading →

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Government Was Never the Problem

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch.com President Reagan’s all-encompassing campaign slogan that “government is the problem” was never the problem. But competent governance has been a problem; in as much as incompetent leaders have been the problem dogging any degree of prosperity … Continue reading →

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“It’s Not About Me…”

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FRED New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is sounding like President Roosevelt when he intones, “It’s not about me, it’s about we.” in his morning COVID-19 press conferences. President Roosevelt most famously said, “The only thing we have … Continue reading →

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