Tag Archives: Income inequality

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill?

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call “The House has now passed what must surely be the worst piece of legislation in modern U.S. history. Millions of Americans are about to see crucial government support snatched away. A significant number will die prematurely due … Continue reading →

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Why Another Gilded Age?

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs “I remember ’29 very well … the drugged and happy faces of people who built paper fortunes on stocks they couldn’t possibly have paid for. … In our little town bank presidents and track workers rushed to pay … Continue reading →

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Who Will Drain the Swamp?

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

ANSWERING KENNEDY’S CALL “This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleagues, but from lobbyists downtown,” said Missouri Dem Senator Claire McCaskill. “None of us have seen this … Continue reading →

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On Preserving Freedom

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Random House Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good. Timothy Snyder in the introduction of On Freedom, the sequel to his best-selling On Tyranny, tells us why we have a sociopath bordering … Continue reading →

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Let’s Make America More Equal Again!–Part 2

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Piketty-Saez Why did our income inequality begin to worsen in 1980, as can be seen from the above graph? The Arab-OPEC oil embargo of 1973 was the first indication that Big Business under the newly created Business … Continue reading →

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Make America More Equal Again!

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Piketty-Saez I have a suggestion for a campaign motto I first wrote about in a 2017 Huffington Post piece that could give a boost to VP Harris’s presidential campaign. Instead of Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.” … 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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Retail Sales, Manufacturing Recovering, But What’s Next?

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs FREDretailsales Retail sales jumped 5.1 percent year-over-year in October, which means this recovery is much stronger than forecast. But the question for economists will be, can it continue with the ongoing winter COVID-19 surge? It’s incredible that consumers … 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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In The Age of Anxiety

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly thesocialhistorian.com We are now in a full-blown “Age of Anxiety”; not the first, of course. There was as much anxiety during the 1918-20 Spanish Flue pandemic that reportedly killed 50 million in a series of worldwide outbreaks … Continue reading →

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