The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Three ScenariosWhat will the recovery from the slump driven by COVID-19 look like? There are arguments for at least three differe...

In 2000 the United States was the world’s largest importer of petroleum, taking in over 10 million barrels/day (bbl/d), consuming one-quarter of the world’s ...

Last year was the tenth since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) and the third of trump’s presidency. Trump came into office promising increased rat...

Ron Baiman, Bill Barclay, Luis Diaz-Perez, Caitlyn Prosapio, June Zaccone March 21, 2015 Complete report is accessible here. Executive Summary Chicago’s next...

Ms. Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter Chicago Sun Times Sept. 12, 2019 Dear Ms. Spielman, It has come to our attention that in a 9/11/2019 interview on WEBZ y...

Contrary to claims by financial lobbyists, neither the Traders who would pay it, or the Exchanges who would collect it, could avoid this minimal Illinois sal...

What has happened to the US economy since the Great Recession - and why?  Is the Trump hype of "the best economy ever" really true?  Or does this claim hide...

In this paper I will demonstrate: A) that the standard economics theory of rent (and most of the rest of mainstream economics) is ideological fiction, and of...

Bruce Parry is an independent researcher in Chicago and a member of the Chicago Political Economy Group (CPEG at CPEGonline.org). He received his PhD in pol...

I frequently start a class discussion of “Supply and Demand” with a simple question to anyone in the class. If you were a pizza producer, how many pizzas wou...

Bill Barclay worked in finance for almost a quarter century.  He is a founding member of CPEG as well as DSA. He has written extensively on financial taxes...

CPEG member Ron Baiman 3/13/2019 talk on capitalist, socialist, anti-rentier economics, and a Green New Deal and Marshall Plan at Henry George School of Ch...

This working paper demonstrates that the money created by the Fed for the three Year 2008-2011 financial bailout would have paid for almost thirty years 2020...

Public presentation to the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle. Link to U-Tube video here: Video of Ron Baiman on Democratic Socialism Presentation power point ...

How should progressives think about Trade Policy? In this report CPEG argues that basic principles of international trade should be re-framed to benefit wor...

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CPEG has now released a publicly accessible database of all Reports, Working Papers, Multimedia, and more dating back to the group's inception in 2007. Acces...