Exporting Water: Almonds, Cattle, and California Agriculture in the Era of Climate Cataclysm
By Bill Barclay, March, 2022. There is much talk about carbon footprints of human activity but we must also think about the water...
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- Mar 24
- 1 min
Our Two Climate Crises Challenge: Urgent Cooling and Long-Run GHG Removal & Ecological Regeneration
We are facing a short-term cooling crisis and a long-term GHG draw down planetary ecological crisis. We must address both. The first...
cpegonline
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
Please Sign this Urgent Petition to COP26 to Reduce Climate Catastrophe Now - Not Just in 30 Years!
Dear Friends, Comrades and Colleagues, Please sign the petition below urging action to reduce climate catastrophe now. Though absolutely...
cpegonline
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Geoengineering and the Green New Deal Podcast
Ron Baiman discusses his 2021 paper in this podcast. The paper: In Support of a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy (REME): A Global...
cpegonline
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
No Covid Blues! - A Musical Video
CPEG is proud to disseminate this musical number as part of mission of building a more just and Covid free world!
cpegonline
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
Emergency Appeal to Policy Makers to Save Arctic Sea-Ice and Reverse Climate Change
Put simply, there are two ways of crossing into (accelerated) catastrophic climate change in the next decade or two. One is through...
cpegonline
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Arctic Sea-Ice Triage, Carbon Cycle Restoration, and a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy
A Global Green New Deal (GGND) that Includes Arctic Sea-Ice Climate Triage and Carbon Cycle Climate Restoration, and that, following...
cpegonline
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Political Economy of US Agriculture: An Introduction
By William Barclay, Ph.D. and Bruce Parry, Ph.D. This is a PDF of a Power Point presentation by the authors to the meeting of CPEG in...
cpegonline
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
The Bankruptcy Games: Cashing Out in the COVID-19 Slump
In the first six months of the COVID-19 slump, unemployment levels in retail trade and oil and gas extraction were some of the highest...
cpegonline
- Jun 12, 2020
- 1 min
Want to “Open Up” without a Vaccine? Implement Comprehensive Daily Testing
The cost of testing all workers, students, young children in childcare and daycare programs, and people in group quarters: including...
cpegonline
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Three Scenarios
The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Three ScenariosWhat will the recovery from the slump driven by COVID-19 look like? There are arguments for at...
cpegonline
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
A Rolling Loan Gathers No Loss: Fracking, COIVD 19, and Zombie Finance
In 2000 the United States was the world’s largest importer of petroleum, taking in over 10 million barrels/day (bbl/d), consuming...
cpegonline
- Jan 24, 2020
- 1 min
Year Three of the Trump Economy: The US Economy in 2019
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...
cpegonline
- Oct 27, 2019
- 3 min
Restoring Chicago's Economic and Fiscal Health
Ron Baiman, Bill Barclay, Luis Diaz-Perez, Caitlyn Prosapio, June Zaccone March 21, 2015 Complete report is accessible here. Executive...
cpegonline
- Sep 12, 2019
- 5 min
Open Letter to Fran Spielman: Please Correct Your Easy to Relocate Financial Trading Misstatement!
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...
cpegonline
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
LaSalle St. Tax Q&A
Contrary to claims by financial lobbyists, neither the Traders who would pay it, or the Exchanges who would collect it, could avoid this...
cpegonline
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Great Recession Ten Years On
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...
cpegonline
- Aug 30, 2019
- 1 min
The Standard Economic Theory of Rent is Immoral and Unjustifiable Ideological Fiction
In this paper I will demonstrate: A) that the standard economics theory of rent (and most of the rest of mainstream economics) is...
cpegonline
- Jul 25, 2019
- 1 min
On Debt Updated
Bruce Parry is an independent researcher in Chicago and a member of the Chicago Political Economy Group (CPEG at CPEGonline.org). He...
cpegonline
- May 6, 2019
- 1 min
The Supply Curve Does Not Generally Exist: So Why is it a Core Concept in Intro Economics Courses?
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,...
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