Analysis
Key Facts
—What this is about. On June 30 — a rare month-, quarter- and half-year close at once — a wave of major decisions landed across four continents, almost none of them from a president or prime minister. They came from courts, central banks and statistics offices — what this piece calls government by deferral.
—America. The Supreme Court struck down the president’s birthright-citizenship order 6–3 on June 30, a day after expanding his power to fire agency heads.
—Canada. April output grew half a percent, the strongest month since July 2025, dissolving weeks of recession talk.
