The answer is so simple, and sad.   Mr. Moore’s latest eye-opening documentary, “Where To Invade Next?” visits countries that have lea...

The economy produced 292,000 jobs in the final month of 2015, the Labor Department said Friday. Pundits had predicted a 200,000 plus incre...

Popular Economics Weekly The Federal Reserve didn’t raise interest rates today at the close of their FOMC meeting. In fact the 9-1 vote a...

Popular Economics Weekly Now that Greece has voted NO on the latest European Commission-European Central Bank-IMF proposal (the so-called ...

Popular Economics Weekly At first glance it looks like a lousy jobs report. It’s true the labor market has softened in several aspects. Pa...

Popular Economics Weekly Federal Reserve Chairperson Yellen wants to keep interest rates as low as possible for at least the “next couple...

Financial FAQs It is becoming obvious that the American middle class (topic dujour among presidential candidates these days) has been ensl...

Popular Economics Weekly It is now beyond a reasonable doubt that Germany and its austerity cohorts want to drive Greece out of the Eurozo...

Financial FAQs Paul Krugman recently highlighted the dangers of Europe’s austerity policies and the growing inequality of the developed w...

Popular Economics Weekly A day after voters passed Proposition 2, which creates a “rainy day fund” to cushion the state budget from future...

Popular Economics Weekly In Janet Yellen’s current congressional testimony, the Fed Chair is saying the Fed could keep rates low for a lo...

Financial FAQs How much inflation is too much inflation? Germany thinks any inflation is too much, based on their 1920s inflation experien...

Financial FAQs How does one stop the bullies? Put simply, find a way to stand up to them. Economic bullies behave no differently than indi...