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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ve found that beers are often bad in very different ways, which means if you mix 2 bad beers together, their average is better than either initial beer
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ve got a (partial) solution my friends and it starts with P and rhymes with “barking.” 🕺🏼 www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
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One simple solution to St. Paul’s budget woes
Free or nearly-free parking is a nice-to-have in St. Paul, but when the city is in the hole, it’s time to rethink old policies.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is such a great read. About St. Paul, MN, but applicable to many other towns and cities.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe it was true in 1876, but now we know that putting white tabs on power lines stops birds from crashing into them. And painting one wind turbine blade black stops bird collisions. And little dots on windows stop birds from hitting those too. We can learn to live with nature.
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a world where Drexel University can close down the nation's oldest natural history museum just because they want to raid its endowment and develop the land, we have to ask if our corporatized universities can be trusted with museums or if museums should separate themselves as quickly as possible.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Election 2026: Governor & Lieutenant Governor of MN. Or: why I think you should vote for Amy Klobuchar. naomikritzer.com/2026/09/22/e...
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Election 2026: Governor & Lieutenant Governor of MN
On the ballot: Amy Klobuchar and Ben Schierer (DFL)Lisa Demuth and Ryan Wilson (Republican)Steven Young and Jane Kirby (Green) The tl;dr is that I’m going to vote for Amy Klobuchar, even thou…
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A pair of researchers has claimed that the myth of the Pleiades as "Seven Sisters" is 100,000 years old. In this blog post, I explore the real history of the myth and why it probably *isn't* nearly that old. #GreekMyth #classics #astronomy #Pleiades talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/09/15/i...
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Is Humanity's "Oldest Myth" Really 100,000 Years Old? - Tales of Times Forgotten
If you live in the northern hemisphere in an area with relatively little light pollution, and you look up at the sky on a clear night sometime between November and February, you will see three promine...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Minnesotans who want to know what to do with their PCR: I've got you. Here's a list of a bunch of close legislative races you can donate to (or volunteer in! some are close to the metro!) naomikritzer.com/2026/09/12/e...
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Election 2026: Where To Spend Money/Time
Every year, Minnesota residents can each make a $75 political contribution to a state or local candidate (or major party), fill out a form, and get that money refunded. This is called the Political…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Who funds political campaigns today? Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and about two dozen other tech bros.
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The cynical part of me thinks that AI executives are intentionally promoting fear about unlikely "doomsday" scenarios as propaganda to distract from the *real* alignment problem, which is between AI companies themselves and the general human population.
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s paywalled when I click it (here & mastodon), but I have never logged in to FT
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Election 2026: MN Attorney General. naomikritzer.com/2026/09/09/e...
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Election 2026: MN Attorney General
This is another very straightforward one. On the ballot: Keith Ellison (DFL)Ron Schutz (Republican) Keith Ellison (DFL) Keith may be my favorite of our current set of elected Democrats. He has work…
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Musk has indirectly killed thousands, Hegseth has directly killed hundreds, Kennedy is awful, but I’m not sure he’s reached their levels (yet)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I definitely prefer “following” to “for you”, but I still haven’t found a good way to integrate Bluesky—it doesn’t remember where I left off. Do you try to see everything that comes through your social feeds?
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Spoooooky Pants 🧛‍♂️ @farnaby.xyz · 12/08/2026
She had more votes than the entire GOP side and won by 20% on the dfl side. This is mainstream shit, Angie Craig was the fringe candidate.
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
There was, however, one exception to this: Minneapolis-St Paul. There, a finance bro, the mob, and a crooked lawyer really did buy the trains and sell them for scrap - but that was the exception, not the rule. 12/12
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How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities
There is a common folk theory that the North American streetcar disappeared because of a conspiracy. Allegedly, industrialists connected with the auto and motor bus industries bought up North Ameri…
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We have to tax billionaires not just because thats what tax is fucking for, but because they’re almost by definition sociopaths, so will do the absolute dumbest, cruelest, weirdest shit. You don’t allow world-changing power to only be given to people who don’t actually share your world with you.
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thanks for coming down and signing my book!
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Prosecco>>champagne
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Conservative ideology is rare at universities because it is an intellectual failure. It provides no useful insights and produces no technological advances. It failed. In the biggest free market for ideas ever created, the market chose the productive route of real scholarship and real research.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/07/2026
Let plug-in solar cook! It's perfectly safe!
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White Paper: Disproportionate Regulation of Residential Plug-in Solar - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yeah, there were interesting technological conversations as well as political, but the chocolate sticks in my memory most now since I can get chocolate reimbursed on business trips if I don’t reach my spending limit naturally—do you remember the brand?
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yes, your conversations with him were often illuminating and I think he was involved with a boutique chocolate company too
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good and should be indicted. And prosecuted. And if found guilty, imprisoned. Along with every other ICE agent who committed crimes against my neighbors.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards suggested that the way to break the GOP's back was: 1. Crackdown on MLMs 2. Regulation of supplements 3. Legalizing direct sale of vehicles Regardless of what it does to the GOP, these all sound great to me.
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Mocking early career researcher's exploitation while arguing for their replacement is absolutely vile.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"I forced myself to smile back at her as she disassembled the body she wore. Showing her that it was okay the best that I could."💕🌌 New fiction today by @chriscampbell.bsky.social: "Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" By Chris Campbell. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It’s worth saying this over and over again so we don’t make mistakes like we’ve made in the past — everyone in the DOJ involved in this must be fired, prosecuted, and if relevant disbarred. You could just quit. People have quit.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Some good Star Wars content for you today: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System
“For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said ...
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Thank you! I used to follow this on twitter but hadn’t found it here yet
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.
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acb420.bsky.social @acb420.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I don’t think CL Moore did any writing for Star Wars (inspired things, perhaps). Are you thinking of Leigh Brackett?
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
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