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The Prophecy, Continued: The Dollar’s Demise Was Never About the Exchange Rate

Written 17 September 2026 (AEST). This is the continuation I promised in January 2024, when I closed The Demise of the US Dollar — A Prophecy For Its Death! with… Read more »

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The Case For The Father: What The Evidence Actually Says About Paternal Involvement In Early Childhood

Father involvement is associated with measurable child outcomes at moderate effect sizes — but quality of involvement, not volume of contact, carries the association. What the research establishes, and what it cannot.

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Performance, Not Presence: Why Creativity Remains the Mind’s Central Asset

Machines may exceed human intelligence, yet every output remains bounded by the domains of architecture, data, sensors and objectives. Until science can detect first-person experience beyond behavioural imitation, machine consciousness… Read more »

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Hike It Double? The Fed’s Real Decision Might Actually Be About Japan

Hike It Double? The Fed’s Real Decision Might Actually Be About Japan In 2019, Playing With Fire* argued that the economic frameworks we’d inherited were already too blunt for the… Read more »

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The Paradigm Beneath the Mask: Sauron, Gilead, and the Vanishing of Pluto — thealphaswarmer

The Paradigm Beneath the Mask: Sauron, Gilead, and the Vanishing of Pluto

In September 2022, I published a piece here called Retrospective Appreciations Of Various Literature and Appropriations, and buried inside it — as a plain PDF download most readers would have… Read more »

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