Tag Archives: President Obama

Candidate Bernie Is Candidate Obama

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly What I learned from last Sunday’s Charleston, South Carolina Democratic debate, the last debate before the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, is that Bernie Sanders the idealist, is almost a reincarnation of candidate Barack Obama in 2008 … Continue reading →

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Let’s Recognize The Enormous Economic Benefits of Global Warming

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs It should now be time to look at the future benefits that will come from the necessity to mitigate global warming, while the Paris climate change conference is in session. We already know the environmental havoc it has … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Unemployment Report Was Gangbusters!

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Why start with motor vehicle sales, I said yesterday? Because jobs are created these days only when consumers buy more, and they will only grow their purchases when incomes are rising. So the good news in Friday’s … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Outrage, Mr. President?

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Where’s the outrage, Mr. President, when the New York Times just reported that at least 250 Disney World employees have been discharged, with many forced to train their own foreign replacements that have temporary H-IB work visas? Those … Continue reading →

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Big Surge In Vehicle Sales, Service Sector, ADP Employment

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Why start with motor vehicle sales? “Consumers weren’t holding back in May when it came to buying cars and trucks which sold at a 17.8 million annual rate for a whopping 7.9 percent gain from April,” said … Continue reading →

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Enslavement of the Middle Class

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs It is becoming obvious that the American middle class (topic dujour among presidential candidates these days) has been enslaved by an ideology that only benefits the wealthiest among US. It is an ideology of austerity that has prevailed … Continue reading →

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December Unemployment Report Sets Record

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Friday’s Labor Dept. nonfarm payrolls report has just set a record for annual job creation. The U.S. added 252,000 new jobs in December to extend the strongest streak of hiring since the mid-1990s, but wages fell and more … Continue reading →

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Why Do We Need Wars for Great Recoveries?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Nobelist Paul Krugman has said history tells us it could take another world war, or similar mobilization effort to put everyone back to work and economic growth to return to historical levels from the Great Recession—even an Alien … Continue reading →

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Fannie/Freddie, Home Prices in Good Shape

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac brought in a combined second-quarter net income of $5 billion, nearly half of the $9.3 billion the two made in the first quarter of 2014, the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s … Continue reading →

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New Fannie, Freddie Regulator Won’t Cut Loan Limits

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — This headline just out.  Mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won’t be directed to lower the limits for mortgages that they back, the new head of their federal regulator said Tuesday. In a … Continue reading →

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