Economics

Fundamental shifts in the world of work are eroding traditional social safety nets. Could a universal basic income (UBI) be the solution? UBI isn’t a new idea, according to the Basic Income Earth Network, which  says it was originally ignored, but growing fears surrounding job automation have stoked an interest in basic income.

Please see below selected recent basic income-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Money
• What's New? - Basic Income
• What's Changing? - Equality?

August 2019

Please see below selected recent economic developments.

See also:

• What's New? - Economics
• What's Changing? - Economics: Money
• What's Changing? - Economics: Emerging Markets
• What's Changing? - Economics: Trade

August 2019

Please see below selected recent emerging markets-related change. (Until mid-2018 the focus was primarily on Africa.)

See also:

• What's Changing? - Development
• What's Changing? - Economics
• What's Changing? - Trade

August 2019

Please see below selected recent food-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Food
• What's Changing? - Water

August 2019

• Many people will stop using plastic straws to save fish, but we won't stop eating fish to save fish? With nearly 5.5 billion fish being caught every day, it's becoming abundantly clear that the fishing methods we're using are having a massive impact on the ocean. 

July 2019

Halcyon curates the most significant money-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with money-related challenges.

Halcyon curates the most significant economic content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with economics-related challenges.

Halcyon curates the most significant basic income-related content from carefully selected source. Please contact us if you'd like our help with basic income-related challenges.

Please see below selected recent sufficiency-related change.

See also: Halcyon Sufficiency Headlines

May 2019

• Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many. It has also shown that having many options is particularly confounding when the information available on them is limited or confusing.

March 2019

Please see below key recent developments concerning trade:

See also:

• What's Changing? - Economics
• What's Changing? - Emerging Markets

May 2019

• In nominal terms, trade between the United States and Soviet Union in the late 1980s totaled $2 billion a year. Current trade between the United States and China is $2 billion a day.

March 2019

Please see below an evolving set of forecasts for 2019. This is work in progress, due for completion before the end of January 2019. 

Introduction