Tag Archives: Roosevelt New Deal

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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How Do We Fix Inflation?

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs I said last week that: “Many of us remember when a gallon of gas was less the $2, or a quart of milk less than $1, or housing was last affordable in the 1970s. I remember the inflation … Continue reading →

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No Art of the Deal

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

ANSWERING KENNEDY’S CALL “After all, it is mathematically impossible to cut taxes for corporations and billionaires, sustain basic programs like defense and Social Security, and lower the deficit simultaneously:” Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. Huffington Post Historians will puzzle over the … Continue reading →

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Bidenomics Is Working!

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Brad Delong Why are Republicans denigrating Biodenomics, the economic policies passed by a bipartisan congress since 2021 that is causing 3 percent GDP growth and 4.0 percent unemployment, with 8 million job vacancies looking for workers, and inflation back … Continue reading →

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When Will Consumers Recover?

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly BEA.gov The key to a robust recovery will depend on how American consumers react to the novel coronavirus pandemic and business shutdown. We were slipping into a recession, anyway. COVID-19 just sped up the inevitable results of … Continue reading →

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Why Do We Need a (new) New Deal?

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Amazon COVID-19 has finally done it. The new bi-partisan legislation working through congress that apportions money to the people and businesses that really need it—working (salaried) folk and small businesses with less access to credit—tell us why we … Continue reading →

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Saving Capitalism—Part II

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz’s plea to save capitalism is important for a number of reasons; foremost is the survival of liberal democracy itself. Modern liberal democracies that we have known since WWII cannot survive if we cannot … Continue reading →

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Why Did Brexit Happen?

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly The shortest answer is the Great Recession and austerity policies of EU policymakers. The result will be a Lessor, or Little Britain, which was inevitable given the austerity policies greatholding sway in the EU. What austerity policies? … Continue reading →

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Is Bernie’s Economic Platform Impossible?

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs It looks like Hillary Clinton’s nomination as the Democratic candidate is assured, but are Bernie Sander’s economic proposals impossible to achieve, as many mainstream economists maintain? Bernie wants to be able to introduce them into their platform at … 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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