Plain Talk on Economics, Inflation, Jobs Report, Sahm Rule, Politicized Econ & more w/Stephen Popick

Heard Tell

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about economics with our returning friend, economist, and writer Dr. Stephen Popick with plan spoken, grown folk talk about economic headlines, inflation worries and recession fears,answering what social media freakout over the Sahm Rule is about, why housing is a generational economic issue and warning, politicizing economic news, answering the "recession, not recession" question and more.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

Timestamps:

00: Intro/ What "Jobs Report" really means & how to discern headlines

7:55 Interest rate cut in September?

13:40 The value of "The Dollar" & the value of you, the consumers, dollar and the personal debt stats post-Covid, & carrying cost of personal and national debt loads

22:30 What the heck is the Sahm Rule, and recession indicators

26:50 How interest rates & inflation is compression housing market, and how housing affect all the rest of consumer economics

33:12 Grown folk talk on what young adults are facing in housing and economics, and debate of whether Gen Z has it "worst" than others

41:40 Are talking head TV economist and influencers keeping up with what is really going on, and how to discern our changing economy

46:30 Dealing with economic headlines getting hijacked into election news and partisan politics and Crypto creeps into GOP platform

56:50 Recession coming or recession not coming? and economic indicators are not economic rules.

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