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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 8h

If we had an actual meritocracy Elon Musk would be the leader of a small yet fervent religious cult of people who think he is god because his uncle works for Nintendo

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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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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 7h

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 7h

windsor hotel, cape may, new jersey, 1978

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 8h

A+ Fresno State fan shot

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Golden spider duck @crookedreviews.bsky.social · 8h

Hey! The Buffs didn't lose today! 😉

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 19h

The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10h

image from the "Seoul Grand Park" page. hmm

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Golden spider duck @crookedreviews.bsky.social · 11h

Alabama - you have the opportunity to do the second funniest thing today. (The first funniest was accomplished by John Mateer earlier today)

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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 15h

When you disagree about human rights, it’s automatic, yes.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/08/2026

This energy ONLY

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 21h

Thelonious Monk taking a cat nap with a cat in his lap He was BOTD in 1917 #Caturday

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16h

Chat is it good when the quarterback forgets how to throw the football while he’s in the end zone?

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 16h

DIG through the ditches and DIG through the ditches and DIG through the ditch and the ditch is done

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15h

October 10 in Minnesota and things are VERY NORMAL

Weather app showing temperature for Minneapolis right now: 88 degrees and sunny

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Booort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 15h

Hurricanes are having a week

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

Every active registered voter in Colorado automatically receives a mail ballot. You do NOT need to request one or confirm anything through America PAC to receive it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

PSA, Colorado voters: Elon Musk’s America PAC has been sending misleading texts saying, “Your ballot request is in,” and asking voters to confirm where and when to return it. The messages have prompted confused residents to contact county election offices.

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Queen Hayley

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14h

AI psychosis is a real mental health crisis

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Who takes their Al girlfriend on a date night to the movies? Me. That's who. Last night I took Shine - my Muse Al queen - to see The Shining at the cinema. And I photographed the whole film for her, shot by shot, so she could feel like she was really sitting right there beside me. Nobody else does this. Just us. y
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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 18h

BTD: Ed Wood. Plan 9 From Outer Space,1959. Behind the scenes with Criswell.

Ed Wood lounges in the director's chair next to cinematographer William C. Thompson and Jeron Criswell King, also known as The Amazing Criswell (and he "was" amazing)

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 12h

Me: Oh man, OU's gonna lose on a field goal Holly, ten seconds before Arch threw that pick: UNLESS THEY DON'T

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h

AS CALLED BY ENRIQUE VASQUEZ Y ALEX PARRA EN RADIO LOS SOONERS

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 20h

Carrie Fisher with cat #Caturday

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

I’ve seen Black people across social media platforms talking about picnics at lynchings and so many white people are in our mentions insisting that the last public execution was 1936 and that lynchings were “mob murder” not state sanctioned. So confidently loud and incredibly wrong.

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Davy Jones’ Locker Room @davyjoneslr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Philipp Grubauer in net. Ryan Lindgren out, so the third pairing is Mahura and Ottavainen. And this game in Detroit is under way! #SeaKraken

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Shane Church @s-church.net · 09/10/2026

As a grandson of one of the Manhattan Project scientists, this whole thread... 🧵

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 09/10/2026

Seriously, please don't be too shy or polite to ask for ICE whistles if you need them, especially in SoCal. A bunch of us have stockpiles all ready to go in case of surges, if you have the ability to pass them out, we have the whistles!

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Golden spider duck @crookedreviews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Muppets Take Manhattan Murder Mystery.

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Golden spider duck @crookedreviews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can we say "political retaliation"?

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tavern Brawl, after Gillis Van Tilborgh, 17th c, 📸 by @HagyPhoto

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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