We write about the world: our societies and values, our economies, our political systems, our purpose and responsibilities and our beautiful natural environments. This site came from a feeling of detachment in our big old world, and a drive to learn engage and inspire and create positive energy.
Economics
Basics
Is economics hard to understand?
What causes economics peaks and troughs?
The economic cycle: ups and downs
Free market, supply and demand -part 1
Top 3 important thing to understand about the economy
How to understand economics intuitively
Deeper dives
- Economics and personal finance: links?
- How does government spending affect me?
- Why is capitalism bad for our society?
- What drives capitalism?
- What the government do in economic crises
- What’s Quantitative Easing and is it bad?
- How the Bank of England controls interest rates
- What does the Bank of England do?
- How do governments borrow money?
- Is government debt bad?
How economics affects our lives
- How does the economy affect me?
- How does government borrowing affect me?
- How does government spending affect me?
- How does the stock market affect my life?
- How does inflation affect me?
Sustainable economics
Politics
Basics
- What does right/left wing mean?
- Democracy: What does it mean?
- Why is capitalism bad for society?
- What drives capitalism?
- Do socialism and communism work?
- What is socialism? good or bad?
- Socialism and capitalism explained
Deeper dives
- Is modern politics scary? politics over the years
- What is the value of education?
- Populism: where does it come from?
Society
- What is society? what do we give or take?
- Why are people do dissatisfied by our societies?
- Populism
- What is the value of education?
- What is the value of healthcare?