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Erlend Eide Bø @erlendebo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Å kutte eiendomsskatten er dårlig bruk av penger. Skattekutt til en gruppe (boligeiere) som stort sett har god råd, og som allerede har skattefordeler.
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Per-Erik Schulze @pererikschulze.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hahaha. Forget the cat videos. Norwegian Institute of Marine Research yesterday shared what happened when they recently put out a baited underwater video rig, such one popular for counting reef fish or fish juveniles without having to dive, at Svalbard, Arctic Norway. www.hi.no/hi/nyheter/2...
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Hanne Østli Jakobsen @hannejakobsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Disse to tingene i kombinasjon er en av de viktigere teknyhetene denne uka (Og det har ikke vært en stille uke!)
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In my most recent piece for Foreign Affairs, I argue that we actually know quite a lot about how large trade imbalances eventually get resolved – and that the adjustment is almost always painful. The key question, then, is how it will be distributed. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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A Great Rebalancing Is Coming
Who will bear the costs of a global trade adjustment?
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olavslettebo.bsky.social @olavslettebo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Noen hovedpoenger fra artikkelen «Offentlig sektor - bedre enn sitt rykte», som kan leses i antologien «For rikt for hvem?». www.dn.no/innlegg/skat...
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Savnet: En realistisk diskusjon om offentlig sektor
Offentlige utgifter eser ikke ut, og de aller fleste av oss mottar mer fra stat og kommune enn vi betaler i skatt og avgifter gjennom livet.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
1/2 FT: "In a sign of deepening EU divisions, Madrid said late on Friday that it would start to check the identities and documents of travellers arriving from Italy at Spanish ports and airports from midnight—less than three hours after its announcement." www.ft.com/content/f305...
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Spain reinstates border controls on Italy as tensions rise over migrants
Move widens rift between Pedro Sánchez’s government and rightwing Italian premier Giorgia Meloni
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Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oppdrettsnæringa forurenser fjordene med miljøgift, lakselus og utslipp, har elendig dyrevelferd som lar millioner av husdyrfisk dø i merdene, og likevel har de mage til å saksøke Staten for det ene lille verktøyet de bruker for å hindre videre vill vekst i problemet?? www.bt.no/nyheter/okon...
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Oppdrettere saksøker staten: – Taper ekstremt mye penger
For fjerde gang går en allianse av vestlandsoppdrettere til retten for å utfordre trafikklyssystemet.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Yes. This point is not sufficiently recognized in the global imbalances debate. If you think your CA deficit is excessive and caused by factors outside your borders, you should tax or otherwise discourage capital inflows. Tariffs are a very blunt tool at best. +
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kode24.no @kode24.no · 22/07/2026
15 år siden 22. juli-terroren blir stadig flere ungdommer del av høyreekstreme miljøer gjennom sosiale medier. Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST) peker på algoritmer som en av faktorene. www.kode24.no/artikkel/pst...
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PST advarer: Algoritmer eksponerer unge for høyreekstremisme
Stadig flere ungdommer blir del av høyreekstreme miljøer gjennom sosiale medier. PST peker på algoritmer som en av faktorene.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Martin Wolf: "We are living in a mercantilist era. This threatens both the stability of the world economy and relations among great powers." 3-4 years ago this would've been considered an outrageous statement. It shows how much the global trading system is under pressure. www.ft.com/content/a5e9...
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Who will win the war of neo-mercantilists?
China’s high degree of self-sufficiency also reduces its vulnerability to coercion by others
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Gabe De Roche @gabederoche.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New survey research released today with @mattomildenberger.bsky.social -- a response to the "don't say climate change" crowd. Many have observed that climate change has moved down voters' list of priorities and have concluded that pro-climate policies would cost votes. That's testable! 🧵[1/13]
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Norway's goal kick hit the spider cam wire which knocked it down and led to England's goal
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
To wit, the US protectionism is not solving trade imbalances, just shifting them geographically. Merchandise imports from China, Japan, and the euro area fell in May relative to the same month two years prior, but went up everywhere else to a much larger degree:
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Filter Nyheter @filternyheter.no · 04/07/2026
FILTER AVSLØRER: Regjeringen lar gruvedumping fortsette, selv om Høyesterett har kjent tillatelsen ugyldig. Men beslutningen fra klima- og miljøministeren hviler på et notat fra Miljødirektoratet som ikke vurderer hvor langt avfallet sprer seg.
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Havforsker: Miljøministeren baserer dumping i Førdefjorden på feilinformasjon - Filter Nyheter
Dumpingen i Førdfjorden baserer seg på én miljøvurdering som bare måler selve avfallshaugen på bunnen, og ikke hvor langt avfallet sprer seg
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Filter Nyheter @filternyheter.no · 29/06/2026
Tillatelsen er kjent ugyldig. Dumpingen fortsetter uten at statsråden svarer på hva som hjemler den. Nå anmelder miljøorganisasjonene selskapet til Økokrim, og tvinger fram svaret: Gyldig hjemmel, eller straffbar forurensning?
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Miljøorganisasjoner anmelder Nordic Mining til Økokrim for dumpingen i Førdefjorden - Filter Nyheter
Selskapet som fremdeles deponerer gruveavfall i Førdefjorden, snaut to uker etter at Høyesterett kjente utslippstillatelsen ugyldig, anmeldes
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/ Interesting short essay by Cornell's Nicholas Mulder on "nationalization waves" in recent history. He describes some of the reasons for these waves, but I would add another. In a highly globalized world in which some countries intervene heavily in their domestic... www.imf.org/en/publicati...
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The New Wave of Nationalization
Historical patterns reveal why state ownership is expanding again and how this time is different
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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I anledning skattekommisjonens rapport: For noen år siden undersøkte jeg nordmenns skattepreferanser: En bred tverrpolitisk enighet hvis du spør _velgerne_ til partiene er at skattesystemet bør være progressivt hele veien. Det står i kontrast til det faktiske systemet som er regressivt i toppen.🧵
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 23/06/2026
The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/
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Requested by the ECON Committee
Monetary Dialogue Papers, June 2026

"Inflation, Supply Shocks and the Case for a Cautious and Differentiated Monetary Policy Response"
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Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Staten tapte i Høyesterett. På alle punkter. Tilliten som er så viktig i Norge står på spill om dommen ikke blir respektert. rett24.no/articles/sta...
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Staten tapte slaget om deponering av gruveavfall i Førdefjorden
Den etterfølgende vurderingen departementet gjorde i fjor kan ikke reparere feilen i vedtakene om å tillate gruveselskapet å deponere avfallet i fjorden, skriver Høyesterett.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thoughts on Capitulation Day. This level of defeat in Iran is only possible at the hands of a super loser like Trump. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. Read more: snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 17/06/2026
A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
1/8 FT: "That said, “the weakness in consumption is more structural”, Logan Wright added." He's right. Every month there are incremental explanations as to why consumption was weak "last month", but the problem is not temporary. It is structural. www.ft.com/content/7db7...
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Xi Jinping wants China to boost demand. Why isn’t it working?
Activity is sputtering midway through 2026, undercutting efforts to galvanise the economy
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thanks Martin Wolf for including “We need to tax billionaires” in the FT’s best books of 2026 ✊ www.ft.com/content/96e2...
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aoncreed.bsky.social @aoncreed.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.goodreads.com/book/show/52... Skrevet av @michaelpettis.bsky.social og Matthew C Klein Til tider tunglest; mye data og analyse. Men spesielt siste kapittel er verdt å lese.
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distor…
A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are c…
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
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Hanne Østli Jakobsen @hannejakobsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Mer enn halvparten av de eksterne investorene i Palantir støttet forslaget om å be selskapet utarbeide en uavhengig menneskerettighetsrapport. Og da blant dem, Oljefondet. www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/olje...
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(+) Oljefondet ville tvinge frem åpenhet hos Palantir
På teknologiselskapets generalforsamling i juni stemte Oljefondet for tre aksjonærforslag som skulle sikre økt åpenhet om Palantirs rolle i konflikter og politiske valg. Det var mot ledelsens anbefali...
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The end of the war with Iran will return focus to Ukraine, where it's belonged all along. That war is Europe's war and the EU just needs to do so much better. After four years of transshipments, they're still going strong. Why is this allowed to happen? robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-madnes...
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In bookstores across the US on August 25. If ever there was a time to act, it is now.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For thirty years of my career studying this, I considered the #AMOC tipping risk serious but low probability. Why I've changed my mind. ⬇️ youtu.be/Cg0N9MWw9Vk?...
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Tipping risk of the Atlantic Ocean's overturning circulation reconsidered. How serious is it?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The very slightly different way I would put this, building on work with Hahrie Han is that AI is hitting our capacities for _collective agency_ by replacing our tools for collaborating with other humans to figure stuff out with mediated relations to frozen monuments of accumulated cultural knowledge
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5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social @5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Les hele saken her: www.5080.no/aktuelt/okon...
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Soumaya Keynes makes an important point here: trade war may indeed be bad for everyone, but (and this is a point Joan Robinson made many decades ago) under certain conditions it can be a lot worse for those who don't engage. www.ft.com/content/9876...
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Why Europe must embrace tariffs
Sorry folks, the rules aren’t coming to save you
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Guardian report on our paper includes one of the better lines. “‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner”. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’
‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank says
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Was just listening to @abenewman.bsky.social on @fraghi.bsky.social’s podcast and then I see this. Trump reportedly suggesting that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the ICC. I tried reading from a neo-royalist point and how it link to hegemony.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1/10 Important FT article by Mark Sobel, Brad Setser and Robin Brooks. They make the seemingly counterintuitive point that while incremental trade agreements, in which one side or the other agrees to buy a little more of this or a little less of... www.ft.com/content/b600...
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America needs to put the renminbi back on the international agenda
‘Managed trade’ isn’t the answer
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A point too often missed. Higher oil prices are effectively a transfer from net oil consumers (households and businesses) to net oil producers (private and state-owned oil companies).
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
1/12 Very good article by Greg Ip. I think the most important point he makes is this one: "The Achilles’ heel of Chinese industrial policy is its cost and waste. China runs bigger budget deficits relative to economic output than the U.S." www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Beijing’s ‘Industrial Policy of Everything’ Leaves Rest of the World in the Dust
Government support encompasses the old, the new, goods and services, micro and macro. Nothing Trump elicits in China will alter this.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...
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Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn
The president’s “settlement” with the IRS appears set to give him a slush fund of $1.7 billion to dole out to allies. How unconstitutional is it? Jamie Raskin counts the ways.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
1/6 SCMP: "The EU’s top trade official used her departing appearance at the EU Parliament to pour cold water on the prospect of an investment deal with China, hinting that new weapons for dealing with Chinese “macroeconomic imbalances” could be on the way." sc.mp/6ku4s?utm_so...
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China-EU investment pact belongs in ‘deep freezer’: outgoing trade chief
Sabine Weyand says the 2020 agreement with China is obsolete as Brussels weighs action on ‘macroeconomic imbalances’.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
1/9 Brilliant article by Martin Wolf on global imbalances. Wolf is one of the few economists who have an intuitive sense of the global economy as an economic system, which means he is also one of the few who understands how global imbalances work. www.ft.com/content/72ab...
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Imbalances are back on the global agenda
Policymakers must overcome the mercantilist fallacy that the way to get rich is by running surpluses forever
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
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ICIJ @icij.org · 27/04/2026
An investigation by ICIJ, with the help of cybersecurity analysts at Toronto University’s @citizenlab.ca, has revealed a sophisticated offensive strategy against ICIJ and its network following the 2025 publication of #ChinaTargets. Read our findings:
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Phony whistleblowers, fake journalists and cyber spies: ICIJ network targeted after China Targets probe  - ICIJ
Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we investigated
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is a really great read from @bhgreeley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/be34...
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There’s no such thing as the petrodollar
War on Iran is changing the currency calculations of Gulf energy exporters. But the dollar’s global role depends on far more than the denomination of a barrel of oil
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Hanne Østli Jakobsen @hannejakobsen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
De liker det visst ikke sjøl heller www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
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Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Dagens ESA: «(i) Norway has failed to implement Article 4(7) WFD into its national legal system. (ii) Norway has incorrectly applied WFD by authorising, and maintaining, the disposal of mining waste in Førdefjorden and Repparfjorden without a valid derogation» www.eftasurv.int/newsroom/upd...
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ESA calls on Norway to comply with EEA rules for the protection of the water environment | EFTA Surveillance Authority
The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has today opened infringement proceedings against Norway for not correctly and completely implementing the Water Framework Directive and for incorrectly applying ...
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olavslettebo.bsky.social @olavslettebo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Det er høy temperatur og mange sterke ord i rentedebatten for tiden. Gitt at man ønsker å beholde 1) frontfagsmodellen, 2) inflasjonsmålet og 3) en forutsigbar finanspolitikk (undervurdert i denne sammenheng) trengs et kompromiss. Her er et forslag: www.dn.no/innlegg/styr...
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Et mulig kompromiss i rentedebatten
Norges Bank og partene i arbeidslivet bør bli enig om spilleregler for hva som skal skje når bedriftene i frontfaget får et prissjokk utenfra.
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Erlend Eide Bø @erlendebo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
En utrolig dårlig og feig avgjørelse. Dagens skatteverdi har ingen sammenheng med reell verdi, og gir store lettelser til de som sitter på verdifulle, gamle hytter i populære områder. www.nrk.no/nyheter/regj...
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Regjeringen dropper endringer i hytteskatten
Regjeringen vil ikke følge opp arbeidet med en ny modell for verdsettelse av fritidsboliger. Dermed er det fryktede skattesjokket for hytteeiere avlyst. – Arbeiderparti-regjeringen kommer ikke til å f...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Ukraine Has Written Off the United States
Zelensky has stopped pretending that Trump might be an ally.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
1/2 Soumaya Keynes notes that while China's surging exports may be a problem for many countries, they are the smaller problem. The bigger problem is that China's imports have barely grown at all. www.ft.com/content/4687...
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What’s really shocking about the second China shock?
While the Chinese export surge continues unabated, import volumes have been anaemic
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊 More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science | AAAS
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