Author
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…
Banks sell it as the ‘housing dream.’ The government calls it stability. In truth, your home is now a debt machine — and you’re…
Any power system that loses trust in its own population will sooner or later begin to monitor language. Not because the words themselves are…
Norway has two economies. One is the state, oil, the Oil Fund, taxes, bureaucracy and transfers. The other is households, small businesses, workers, craftsmen…
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…
The Norwegian state has taken on so many permanent obligations, transfers, subsidized schemes, bureaucratic layers and public ambitions that the economy can no longer…
This lies at the heart of what is classically called “Dutch disease” – not merely exchange rates and lost competitiveness, but a deeper structural…
It is tempting to explain the difference between Norway and Sweden with simple single factors — electricity prices, interest rates, war, or exchange rates.…
What is lost in any cultural revolution is not, first and foremost, institutions, laws, or economic structures. It is something far more subtle —…
“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…
The most powerful weapon makes neither a bang nor a puff of smoke. The burning pipe is demography – a war waged with wombs…
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…