Tag Archives: Great Depression

Will 2019 Be Year U.S. Begins to Reunite?

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly vox.com Wonder of wonders, is New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks becoming a neo-Keynesian, New Deal economist? This is the term coined for those younger economists, such as Nobel economists Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and George … Continue reading →

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Will 2019 Be Year U.S. Begins to Reunite?

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly vox.com Wonder of wonders, is New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks becoming a neo-Keynesian, New Deal economist? This is the term coined for those younger economists, such as Nobel economists Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and George … Continue reading →

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What Happens When Poverty Exists In the Valley of Plenty?

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

ANSWERING THE KENNEDYS CALL TO ACTION Poverty in the Valley of Plenty is a documentary film that then California Congressman Richard Nixon and growers in the San Joaquin successfully sued to have banned for defamation. It was about the working … Continue reading →

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The Dire Consequences of Record Income Inequality

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

ANSWERING the KENNEDYS CALL In a new Economic Policy Institute report entitled The New Gilded Age, income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s, and in most states it has continued to grow in the post–Great Recession era. … Continue reading →

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Record Income Inequality + Trade War = Another Recession?

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: BigTrends.com The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, so called, was imposed in 1930 when the Hoover administration raised tariffs on 20,000 foreign, mostly agricultural, imports in an attempt to protect American farmers as we were entering the Great … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Robin Hood?

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Mother Jones The Brits in particular must be wondering what happened to Robin Hood, the legendary champion of the poor, who robbed the rich to give to the poor during medieval times when nobles ruled their … Continue reading →

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Our ‘Drip-Down’ Economy

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Marketwatch The results are already in on the current administrations tax and economic policies. They are carrying Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down economy to an even lower level. Let’s call it the ‘Drip-Down Economy’, since none of the … Continue reading →

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When is the Next Recession?

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Graph: TradingEconomics.com We are nearing the end of the second-longest growth cycle since the Clinton era’s 10-year 1991-2001 boom years; because once again a huge amount of debt has accumulated that ultimately has to be paid for. Are … Continue reading →

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When is the Next Recession?

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Graph: TradingEconomics.com We are nearing the end of the second-longest growth cycle since the Clinton era’s 10-year 1991-2001 boom years; because once again a huge amount of debt has accumulated that ultimately has to be paid for. Are … Continue reading →

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Good Initial Q1 GDP Growth

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: bea.gov Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, … Continue reading →

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