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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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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We need to ban online gambling yesterday.

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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

to be an american right now is to know your government and its captured media outlets prioritize protecting the modern world’s most violent group of rapists and pedophiles. this is plain fact

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"In past conflicts, preparing lists of proposed targets — work that includes assessing how they align with an operation’s objectives — had taken hours for staffers to complete. Ahead of the US attack on Iran, much of that work was condensed into several minutes via Maven," a Palantir AI system.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(Realizing it would sound petty if I just said I don't like your post) Your post jeopardizes an important election

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop.

Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community.

Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered.

Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I say again that professional services firms whose actions demonstrate they think they have little to add beyond generative AI are revealing exactly how much value they have *always* had to offer organizations: very little.

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm just making plans to vote in-person at this point and I'm gonna recommend that to others in my life too

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every single article about solar power and battery tech is like "We put solar panels on the Hellmouth and the Hellmouth is now reciting poetry and smells like peppermint and teaching young orphaned birds how to fly. Also we can power a small city block."

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults:

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LET ME HEAR YOU NEIGH. @dayoftheweek.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

The data centers think they slick.

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Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Any LIVING person would have been slapped with/ a no call no show termination by the second day.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

since they don’t arrest pedophiles and con men, the police had to invent a new “crime” they actually care about

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The kids on TikTok have y’all beat. They’re taking action to defend the Roadless Rule at a rate almost 100x that here on Bluesky. So let’s get the word out about this public comment period here as well!

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Actually pretty funny for a bunch of ex-Republicans to join the Democrats and then immediately start asking other Democrats if they're secret Republicans

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s an internal monologue for people who lost theirs after their 13th concussion.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

These people are not Democrats and should not be listened to or treated like them.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

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Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

United Democracy Project, an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC, is running YouTube ads featuring an AI-generated Trump assisting Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan campaign. “Don’t Help Trump’s Candidate,” the ad warns. Meanwhile, United Democracy Project’s largest donor is Paul Singer, a major Trump fundraiser.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026

as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 27/07/2026

what's a good post to misinterpret and get mad about for beginners

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 21/07/2026

it is weird that they have settled on this line because it is A. a bizarre and unintuitive comparison between two completely unalike things B. not especially funny and C. untrue

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Spain-Argentina is the first World Cup “Colonizer vs Colonized” match that makes me say “well, let’s consider the nuances”

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

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Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Jay @jdbatts79.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If our elected officials and local/state governments aren’t going to protect us from armed agents of the federal government murdering us in the streets, I don’t think you can even remotely question that we are in 100% failed state territory

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

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Violence in Blue

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

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spooky lerrrgan 👻 @lerrrgan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

a new diva just entered the werk room

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/07/2026

step one the first hand distracts the audience all week with mitch mcconnell. step two the second hand sets up the trick with lindsey graham while everyone's focus is elsewhere. step three that's the majestic baby, christopher nolan's the odyssey now playing in IMAX next friday

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE murdered another person.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

mitch “schrödinger” mcconnell

$Is Mitch McConnell Dead Yet? @IsMitchDeadYet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 11:00 AM • 7/6/26$

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