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Sten Branderne

Editorials

The housing market is pricing away the next generation
Sten Branderne 
Children are not born into spreadsheets. They are born into a home. They need a room, a bed, a nursery place, a safe everyday…

Editorials

A people isn't freed by owning homes if those homes own the rest of their lives."
Sten Branderne 
Banks sell it as the ‘housing dream.’ The government calls it stability. In truth, your home is now a debt machine — and you’re…

Editorials

The State's legitimacy depends on protecting citizens' freedom, not their mental comfort
Sten Branderne 
Any power system that loses trust in its own population will sooner or later begin to monitor language. Not because the words themselves are…

Editorials

It's not the people living beyond their means — It's the state
Sten Branderne 
Norway has two economies. One is the state, oil, the Oil Fund, taxes, bureaucracy and transfers. The other is households, small businesses, workers, craftsmen…

Editorials

The man who owes the bank five million doesn’t revolt — He goes to work
Sten Branderne 
The home was meant to be a family’s sanctuary. Instead, it has become the collateral for the entire social model. The bank gets the…

Editorials

Norway’s dangerous complacency: "At least we’re better off than Chad"
Sten Branderne 
The Norwegian state has taken on so many permanent obligations, transfers, subsidized schemes, bureaucratic layers and public ambitions that the economy can no longer…

Opinion

Whose oil fund is it anyway?
Sten Branderne 
This lies at the heart of what is classically called “Dutch disease” – not merely exchange rates and lost competitiveness, but a deeper structural…

Editorials

The State ensures persistent inflation that crushes the population
Sten Branderne 
It is tempting to explain the difference between Norway and Sweden with simple single factors — electricity prices, interest rates, war, or exchange rates.…

Editorials

The quiet dismantling of trust and shared reality
Sten Branderne 
What is lost in any cultural revolution is not, first and foremost, institutions, laws, or economic structures. It is something far more subtle —…

Opinion

Nordics must build a New World order, says Danish PM
Sten Branderne 
“We must build a new world order,” said Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a meeting with Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, other…

Comment

When we lose the majority, we lose the country – the rest is formalities
Sten Branderne 
The most powerful weapon makes neither a bang nor a puff of smoke. The burning pipe is demography – a war waged with wombs…

Guest writer

No two-state solution – just one long-term diversion
Sten Branderne 
While Norwegian politicians still cling to the illusion of a two-state solution, Islamist forces have long since made it clear that the conflict with…