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Who benefits most from AI safety panic?
The companies building the most powerful AI systems are also among the loudest voices calling for regulation.
Sep 23
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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.
Sep 7
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The Modern Enquirer
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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.
Sep 1
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August 2026
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…
Aug 29
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The Modern Enquirer
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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…
Aug 26
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The Modern Enquirer
The Regulated Country
How Australia built an economy where almost every decision requires permission
Aug 24
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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…
Aug 24
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The Modern Enquirer
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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…
Aug 22
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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…
Aug 20
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The Modern Enquirer
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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
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Nick Holt
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The Invisible Infrastructure
AI is no longer just a tool. It is becoming a layer of economic and social infrastructure.
Aug 9
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Nick Holt
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July 2026
The More Digitally Dependent Australia Becomes, the Less Resilient It Gets
The Telstra Outage Didn’t Break Australia. It Revealed It.
Jul 11
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The Modern Enquirer
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