Australian researchers suggest a certification process and a digital passport could allow rooftop solar panels to be reused rather than recycled.

A lack of trust and complexity is making the idea of VPPs a very hard sell to the growing number of battery households, with only a tiny minority signing up

Statistics New Zealand’s latest migration data showed that only 13,066 net overseas migrants landed in the country in the year to July 2025. This inflow was well below the decade average of 49,000 and more than 120,000 lower than the late 2023 peak. The following chart from Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro shows that the

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I have just returned from a rock-n-roll thunder tour of the world that took in Tokyo, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome. I have not visited any of these cities in forty years, so the changes were amazing. First, what had not changed. Everybody smokes, everywhere, thank god. Tokyo has barely changed as an experience, except

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With the release of the latest data from Statistics Canada, it was revealed that Canada’s fertility rate had fallen to just 1.25 children per woman. To put this into perspective, it’s lower than Japan’s fertility rate of 1.30 children per woman recorded during the height of lockdown during the pandemic in 2021. According to commentary

The Market Ear on the bubble. Nothing is impossible Can the AI frenzy go into total overdrive? NDX now compared to 1999. Source: LSEG Workspace Retail mania “Retail investors have bought over $100bn of US equities over the last month on QDS estimates based on public data* – the largest 1-month buy on record, just

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