Apr 15 Mon: Will the Real Fiscal Stimulus Please Stand Up

Bob Jene compares the geoist fiscal reform to the TARP bailout, “Fair” Tax, Flat Tax, Bush tax cuts, and government money creation. Each proposed or attempted solution to the great recession will be given.  Attendees will rank the proposed measures to get out of the recession on a scale of 1 to 10 based on …

Spring schedule is posted

Our spring term schedule, posted here, features two sections of Progress & Poverty, plus advanced courses.  As previously posted, it’s now possible to get college credit for Henry George School classes. We’ll also have films, discussions, talks and tours– the whole schedule will be posted over the coming days, or you can phone 312 450 …

POSTPONED:Mar 25 Mon 6 PM: High Cost of Government Revenue

Due to a schedule conflict, Bob Jene is unable to present “High Cost of Government Revenue” on Monday, March 25.  A new date will be announced. You probably already know that America’s tax system, and especially the personal income tax, is a cause of frustration and wasted effort (beyond the poverty which would be caused …

March 20 Wed: Political Economy Book Club

At this session PEBC concludes its discussion of Henry George, Jr.’s The Menace of Privilege. We’ll focus on Books VI thru IX, including discussion of how Privilege controls not just land, but the press, the university, the churches, and of course the government itself, making poverty and war unavoidable. The reading is less than 200 …

Mar 9 Sat 2 PM Movie: The Molly Maguires

Sean Connery stars as a leader of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish mineworkers in Pennsylvania in the 1870s, who battle their exploitation by mine owners with violence. This 1970 American film, based on a 1969 novel by Arthur H. Lewis, also stars Richard Harris and Samantha Eggar.  Set just a decade prior …

Jan 30 Wed. 6 PM: How I made $1,000,000 in Chicago Real Estate: I $tole it from You!

What George Menninger did was completely legal. He stole over a million dollars.  Many people do it, perhaps including some of your neighbors, so if George hadn’t then someone else would have. You and fellow Chicagoans have already paid George so he is far beyond the need to earn a living. Now he volunteers some …

Jan 30 Wed. 6 PM: How I made $1,000,000 in Chicago Real Estate: I $tole it from You!

What George Menninger did was completely legal. He stole over a million dollars.  Many people do it, perhaps including some of your neighbors, so if George hadn’t then someone else would have. You and fellow Chicagoans have already paid George so he is far beyond the need to earn a living, so now he volunteers …

Jan 23 Wed 6 PM: Political Economy Book Club discusses the Menace of Privilege

We gather to talk about one of Henry George, Jr.’s important works,    The Menace of Privilege.  From the Preface: What is the cause of the grave changes that are coming over the American Republic — the extraordinary inequality in the distribution of wealth manifested on every hand; the rise of class feeling; the growth …

Wed Dec 5 at 6 PM: The Invisible Cost of Imaginary Property

New kinds of privilege are extracting wealth from people who produce. Historically, owners of land extracted tribute in exchange for the resource everyone needs to produce or even live. But more recently, imaginary property “rights,” really just the power to levy a toll on production, and which were well-understood by Henry George, have taken an …