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Mass Migration Is the Drug Australia Uses to Avoid Economic Reform

Australia has learned to keep the economy growing by adding people. The harder task is making the country more productive.

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The Iran War Is Making the Strait of Hormuz Obsolete

By threatening the world’s most important oil chokepoint, Iran may be accelerating the infrastructure that makes it matter less.

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Top 10 Biggest Promises Trump Has Failed to Keep

Nineteen months into his second presidency, Trump has changed Washington dramatically — but many of the promises that brought him back to power remain…

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America Is Regulating Social Media Without Passing a Law

Meta’s $17 billion settlement marks a shift from regulating what social-media platforms publish to regulating how they are designed to capture and…

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The Regulated Country

How Australia built an economy where almost every decision requires permission

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Trump’s Trade War Isn’t Just About Trade, It’s About Access

Trump is using access to the American market to pull foreign capital, factories and strategic infrastructure into the United States. The real test of…

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US Regulators Move to Reshape Financial Markets With Stablecoins, Tokenisation and Blockchain

The Trump administration is building a regulatory framework for stablecoins, tokenised assets and blockchain-based markets as part of a broader push to…

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The Two Minds of Artificial Intelligence

For seventy years, AI has oscillated between machines that reason and machines that learn. Its next breakthrough may come from putting them back…

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The Recession That Hasn’t Arrived

America’s economy is still growing. Increasingly, that tells us less about how Americans are actually doing.

Aug 18 • Nick Holt

The Invisible Infrastructure

AI is no longer just a tool. It is becoming a layer of economic and social infrastructure.

Aug 9 • Nick Holt

The More Digitally Dependent Australia Becomes, the Less Resilient It Gets

The Telstra Outage Didn’t Break Australia. It Revealed It.

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The War Didn’t End Iran’s Nuclear Problem — It Concentrated It

Bombing Iran's nuclear facilities destroyed buildings. It didn't account for the enriched uranium. That's where the real contest now sits.

Jun 14 • The Modern Enquirer

America Has No Exit Strategy Because Iran Has No Incentive to Stop Fighting

Why Tehran may believe time and escalation strengthen its negotiating position.

Mar 14 • The Modern Enquirer

AI Has Entered The Kill Chain

Artificial intelligence is now defining targets on the battlefield

Mar 12 • The Modern Enquirer

Australia gutted its energy infrastructure chasing net zero — now we’re running on empty

After a decade chasing net zero, an energy superpower can barely fuel itself.

Mar 11 • The Modern Enquirer

How Britain’s Oil Crisis Led to the CIA-Backed Coup in Iran

The 1953 overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh grew out of a struggle over control of Iranian oil that began half a century earlier.

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