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Our Record Income Inequality Needs Fixing

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs FRED In an earlier column I imagined what could have been accomplished if the $2 trillion given to corporations in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had been put into upgrading our infrastructure, instead of given to … Continue reading →

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How Do We Recover From This War—Part II?

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys’ Call MarketWatch “Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse, says economist Thomas Piketty in his latest book, “Capital and Ideology” … Continue reading →

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Budget Deficits With the Laffer Curve

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Wikipedia There is an economic theory of sorts that helps us to understand why our political parties can’t agree on how to grow an economy that benefits most Americans. It’s called the Laffer Curve, reputedly first drawn on … Continue reading →

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What is a Living Wage?

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering the Kennedys Call The Washington Post published a recent interview with new Democratic House Member Alexandria Octavia-Cortez in which she said, “I think it’s wrong that a vast majority of the country doesn’t make a living wage, I think … Continue reading →

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Whither Go Interest Rates?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

The Mortgage Corner Existing-home resales weakened in January as the NAR’s pending home sales index fell sharply and is pointing to trouble for final sales of existing homes where the year-on-year rate for January had already fallen back below the … Continue reading →

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Who Killed Our Middle Class?

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly It’s becoming clear that our Middle Class—the midsection of U.S. earners and consumers—has shrunk alarmingly. And this is the main reason for the political polarization today that in the words of journalist Christopher Hedges, has driven the … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Link Between Profits and Productivity?

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly What’s the link between profits and productivity, on which economic growth is based? It has broken down of late, so that profits of many businesses and whole business sectors are no longer used to enhance productivity. And … Continue reading →

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Baltimore and the Lessons of Inequality

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs David Brook’s most recent New York Times Oped talks about the dissolution of social bonds in Baltimore neighborhoods. “Even in poorest Baltimore, there once were informal rules of behavior governing how cops interacted with citizens,” he says in … Continue reading →

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The Political Consequences of Inequality

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Paul Krugman recently highlighted the dangers of Europe’s austerity policies and the growing inequality of the developed world, the worst since the Great Depression. The result then, as now, has been the growing strength of right wing parties … Continue reading →

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Who Are the Real Takers?

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly We have been there before. The Census Bureau reported that the poverty rate fell in 2013, the first drop since 2006. It fell to 14.5 percent, down from 15 percent in 2013, but 45.3 million people are … Continue reading →

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