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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

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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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/10/2026

No doubt they'll realise their 'error' once the polls have closed.

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Faye Stacey @pondi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So chuffed to be nominated for a Selkie award this year! Scotland is bursting with amazing comics, and it's so cool to be recognised among my friends and peers x

A quick illustration. The text says 'thank you'. Sorrel and Yarrow are holding up their hands making a heart symbol

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that politicians across the spectrum treat the UKs only real strength, the creative industries and the arts, as an embarrassment to be stamped out is one of the most obnoxiously obvious signs of toxic masculinity going

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After the Rebel show, then the Butcher tribute I’m still building the emotional fortitude for this one. My best hometown greasy boy 😢

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Yorgy Darkwing @yorgydarkwing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

youtu.be/nAsR94hSz6E?... I havent seen anyone sharing this and that's super sad. So I'm fixing that. Watch this

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"Only War" - Fan Animation

YouTube video by Badcompany Shorts

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Amazing! Well done, they look superb.

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Moonshade @moonshademinis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

6 tables of the new GW terrain for my local shop, done in 4 weeks from sprue to table! Due to the fires I couldn’t even use my airbrush. Tired but very proud! Hopefully will turn into more commission work for me #warhammer #warhammercommunity

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

c.org/kRb9mZPPd8 Get this nonsense away. Please give a read and consider singing to try and stop the construction of an AI data centre in the Thames Valley

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AI Data Centre 72MW at Thames Valley Park, Reading - STOP construction

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𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔲𝔦 @emorui.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Please please please do this. Only 1663 alegations of thousands of people who are against AI, we NEED to push back

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thousand Hells is out NOW. A tactical narrative game about staging heists in different hells that blends mythology and surrealism from the creators of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages - there’s nothing like it. I’m delighted to be one of the writers involved store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

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Save 10% on Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists on Steam

Recruit your team, choose your path, and descend into hell. Four heroes must overcome the trials of the underworlds in tactical narrative encounters. A new systemic storybook experience blending mytho...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026

They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 03/09/2026

So, JL PartnersP, a pollster frequently used by the anti-trans hate group Sex Matters, is implicated in the Reform scandal. No one would really be surprised that the British public is much more trans-inclusive than their fake polls may portray.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026

a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists!

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'Rogue Agents' Lol. Okay, Skynet. Remember, again kids, they write the headlines this way on purpose so that the AI seems super cool intelligent and not something doing exactly as it was programed, and therefore advertising it as an awesome investment of our resources. It's marketing. It's smoke.

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me on my deathbed: “I wish we’d had just one more hour together my beloved…” The Snickers demon whispering in my ear:

A snickers bar with a competition for a football thing reading “a chance to win extra time together”

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

People will inevitably be dumb and tribal about supporting either game, as if that’s a thing that actually matters, or see the success of one as the failure of the other. But feels like TC, like FaB, by design can coexist with the Big Thing and define success on its own terms. Gives it chiller vibes

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So many card games come out and their vibe (either implied through design or by explicit marketing) is “we’ve fixed Magic!” But despite its flaws, MANY like Magic. Same with 40K. So FaB and TC do well coming in instead with “That thing’s cool, and here’s our thing!” They sit alongside the Big Thing.

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve not gotten into Trench Crusade (yet), but it’s giving me Flesh and Blood vibes in the best possible way, in that it isn’t defining itself by trying to ‘fix’ or ‘better’ the Big Thing in its field, instead it’s doing its own thing with confidence and flair. Mini🧵 #TrenchCrusade #Warhammer40K

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

2 of 25 But then I’ve always been clueless

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🇫🇷 FRANCE: “A photograph of Palestinian footballers playing on a makeshift pitch surrounded by the ruins of Gaza has been removed from a major sports photography exhibition in France following complaints from pro-Israel campaigners.” greatreporter.com/2026/08/25/e...

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s wild to me that 6 years ago people were absolutely apoplectic about schools using Zoom. They INSISTED that schools needed to be open, despite the health risks, because it was so important for kids to be in traditional classes. Now they are promoting this.

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Had to withdraw from this in the end as one of the organisers signed the letter supporting Nathan Cofnas. While the other organiser didn't agree with them, I just don't want to be associated with it, especially in a franchise that already has far-right elements in its fanbase. #warhammercommunity

This is not an academic free speech issue at heart. It is a philosophy academic opining on IQ and genetics, something he does not have a single degree in, nor has he been hired to work on these topics.

Regardless of my interpretation of this academic speech point, which we may have to agree to disagree upon, I do not want to be associated with support for this odious man. As you have signed this letter in support of him and are one of the lead organisers and have been the public face of the conference, I do not want to present at it and shall exercise my academic free speech in withdrawing my paper.

Cofnas' racist views and his stated dream to "after the revolution" become "head of the Department of Eugenics and Race Science at Harvard" are abhorrent. Considering the problems that Warhammer already faces with far-right elements in its fanbase, something you have yourself written upon, it is deeply disappointing that the only conference on the franchise is now linked to such an individual as Cofnas, a publicly admitted eugenicist.

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am withdrawing my paper proposal from Warhammer Conference 2026. My reasoning can be found below. In a way, this has been one of the most stressful decisions of my academic career. In one way, the answer was clear to me since I found out about this.

To Dr. Ryder:

I am deeply saddened to do this, but I must withdraw my paper proposal for this year’s Warhammer Conference. I have been attending the conference every year since its inception, and as you are aware, this is the premiere conference in the field where I am currently writing my doctoral thesis.

My withdrawal is based your signature of the open letter in support of Nathan Cofnas, which I feel misleadingly frames his suspension as an issue of academic free speech, where as Ghent University has stated that their reasoning was based on shoddy work ethics and work that would bring university’s reputation into disrepute, i.e. “race realism” and other frankly racist and dubiously scientific works. I believe that many well-meaning scholars have been misled by primarily making this a case of academic free speech.

Moreover, Nathan Cofnas was the instigator for a mass harassment campaign of dubious merits that led to the death of Professor Jason Arday, which I find disgusting, horrible and unforgivable. I am unwilling to associate with anyone who shows support for Cofnas under the guise of academic free speech. The far right have shown their capability to use free speech as a smokescreen to harass, target, and demonize whole groups of people, and this is just another example of it. To see “academic free speech” being used as a reason to support this odious man is unacceptable to me. Without speculating on your motives, I have to listen to my own principles in this matter.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ve been spending a lot of crafting time making my own accessories for Magic the Gathering, and these are my Snake Tokens. they are both snakes. of course.

two beautiful snakes drawn on shrinky dink plastic (pre-shrinking)

one is blue and wiggly. the other is a brushbuddy from Witch Hat Atelier: a fluffy white tube guy. he’s an honorary snake okay

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Aethira @aethira.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

unfortunately my order of the special edition of The Wicked and the Warped got switched with someone’s Necromunda box. GW can’t replace it because they’re out of copies. This is a long shot, but if there’s someone out there who’s missing their Necromunda box and got my book instead, let me know 😔

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Phwoarhammer (but scary) 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ @rustedwirewitch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'll be honest, I wasn't really sold on the Dok when I first saw the 11ed teasers. Something about the pose felt a bit off to me. But what an absolute joy to paint, this lad is.

Face of an Ork painboy, a brutish green alien surgeon with a stained apron

Side view of an Ork painboy, a brutish green alien surgeon with a stained apron

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Don’t go near the tube or landmarks

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Basically our world but more French by volume? I think I could keep my head down and do ok… depends on what kind of mood the Harry is in I suppose…

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The fired Rockstar workers are asking supporters not to boycott GTA 6, but instead, to directly support the union's legal costs as it approaches next month's employment tribunal.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The press in this country can hound anyone out of work or their lives with no repercussions. I know -it's happened to my family when my partner got it in his head that trans people might exist- so he got death threats and lost work because the press thought that might be fun. We haven't recovered.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The entire country is literally on fire. We have had 2000 extra deaths this summer, so far, there are no mitigation strategies in place to deal with this, our PM wants to drill more in the North Sea, and - oh my god a black man has the temerity to get a job at Cambridge!!!?

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The VC of Greater Manchester uni embezzled £1 million. Did you see *a single story about that*?

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Universities are riddled with old white guys who have sexually assaulted their students, but still get a paycheck while not teaching. You won't hear about that.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This entire disgusting situation with Arday has shown the horrible priorities of a society built for the ruling class. Our press isn't free, and it is used solely and exclusively to pursue the interests of the ruling class which owns it.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NEW: Nigel Farage’s long-term aide George Cottrell had a secret Polymarket account that received nearly $20mn in cryptocurrency to place bets on Donald Trump winning the US election, at a time when he was providing gifts and benefits to the Reform UK leader. w/ @miles-johnson.bsky.social

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

People are so Capitalism-pilled that they see "user number big" as preferable + a reason Bluesky is "lesser" than other social media. But consider this: I don't want to be in a bigger, angrier, shittier crowd of people. I want to be in the smaller, curated, better behaved and more loyal crowd.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13/08/2026

According to Similarweb (the source cited for this data), ~27% of Threads' alleged half a billion monthly active users came from Taiwan (or ~135M people) Taiwan's actual population is ~23 million

July 2026 All traffic Share o® Top Countries O Taiwan 27.21% - 12.96% Vietnam 15.31% 7 2.03% United States 11.85% • 14.09% Korea, Republic of 4.92% - 9.36% Indonesia 4.69% • 10.19% Others 36.02% See all countries →

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well unlike all you snowflakes I looked directly at the eclipse and I’m fine 😏 Amazing how it made the whole world SO dark! So, when does the sun come back? 🙂

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Joseph Nielsen @jytook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I would love to have a Shatterpoint/Crisis Protocol style game for Avatar and Legend of Korra (and the new movie and series why not) My finances, however, very much hope that never happens

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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TWITCH AI TRAINING IS LIVE - ON BY DEFAULT here's how to turn it off: - settings - security and privacy

twitch ai training "training for generative ai" consent screenshot

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