Tag Archives: New Deal

Whose Inflation Is It?

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs “Still, despite multiple offsetting drivers, the tariff shock is further dimming already lackluster growth prospects. We expect a slowdown in the second half of this year, with only a partial recovery in 2026, and, compared to last October’s … Continue reading →

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A Different Federal Reserve

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs “Warsh would chart a new course that de-emphasizes the inflationary impact of factors such as supply chains and tariffs in favor of a views of inflation driven by government spending and the money supply.” Barron’s Graph: Last Tech … Continue reading →

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What Is Burning?

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call “Yet another tragic story of people being trapped inside a burning Tesla, this time in Toronto. Four dead; one rescued when a bystander smashed a window. Phil Koopman, cited by Paul Krugman in Substack Carscoops.com Paul Krugman … Continue reading →

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No Art of the Deal

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,’ Einstein? Huffington Post Insane behavior could describe the actions that President-elect Trump is promising to implement after January 20. He has said he wants … Continue reading →

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End of the Age of Narcissism–Part II?

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call USAToday South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this August was notable for the estimated 450,000 attending during the COVID-19 pandemic. It happened in spite of the almost unanimous warnings given by public health officials that it could … Continue reading →

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What’s Next…?

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs MarketWatch U.S. stocks finished mostly higher Tuesday, with the S&P 500 index notching its first record close since Feb. 19, and marking the quickest recovery from bear-market territory in its history, according to Dow Jones Market Data.  So … Continue reading →

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Why So Much Inequality?

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Wrightson/ICAP Nobel Laureate and NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman has said it would probably take something on the scale of an alien invasion to create the emergency programs and policies that would benefit all Americans, such as another New … 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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Might We Have More Than One Pandemic?

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Wrightson/ICAP Yes, says behavioral economist Robert Shiller, who won his Nobel prize for the study of human behavior in financial markets. Why? Financial market investors are panicking because of the COVID-19 pandemic, for starters, which could affect … Continue reading →

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The Coronavirus—A New World War

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Conference Board Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has said it might take an alien invasion to bring Americans together again to counter the threat of another economic downturn possibly as great as the Great Depression. Well, the new … Continue reading →

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