Tag Archives: Great Recession

Housing Creating More Jobs In 2016

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner We see housing in 2016 continuing to grow the economy. This is mainly because new-home construction should surpass 1 million units again this year, and it is new-home construction (and sales), rather than existing-home sales that adds … Continue reading →

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What Are Economic Lessons From ‘The Martian’?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs What can we learn from The Martian, a terrific novel and movie starring Matt Damon as an Astronaut in the not too distant future thought dead and left behind on Mars during a violent dust storm? It was … Continue reading →

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An End to Austerity?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs On November 5, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act, a new multi-year transportation authorization bill, by a vote of 363-64. It will refund the Highway Trust Fund, among other … Continue reading →

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The Fed Can’t Raise Interest Rates Soon

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Our Federal Reserve won’t be able to raise interest rates at all this year, or maybe even next year, says Marketwatch. Why? Because the EU Central Bank just announced they are increasing their Quantitative Easing program (QE), … Continue reading →

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Who’s To Blame For the Great Recession?

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Why has economic growth been so slow since the Great Recession? This is the question haunting many economists these days. Second quarter 2015 real GDP growth (after inflation) was just 2.3 percent six years after its end. … Continue reading →

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What Would Save the Euro?

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Now that Greece has voted NO on the latest European Commission-European Central Bank-IMF proposal (the so-called troika), will Greece stay in the Eurozone? If so, Greece may save the euro. Why is this choice even necessary when … Continue reading →

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Germany’s Failed Austerity Policies

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs One would think by now the debate has been resolved on which economic model created the better recovery for this Great Recession or Lessor Depression, as P Krugman has called it. But no, Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble … Continue reading →

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Expanding Social Security – Decreasing Inequality

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly What, you say? We should expand, not shrink, social security benefits in the face of horrendous budget deficits of late? Elizabeth Warren put into the Senate Budget proposal for 2015 an amendment to protect social security, and … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Our Great Society

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly We are in the midst of celebrating the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s Great Society, enacted for the most part from 1964-66, perhaps the greatest legislative achievement of any president since FDR and the New Deal. We … Continue reading →

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Labor Force Participation Improving

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly One lament by Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen and others has been the low labor participation rate of the prime-age workers—those 25 to 54 year-olds that have dropped out of the labor force, or are working part time.  … Continue reading →

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