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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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Johannes Klenell @johannesklenell.bsky.social · 11h

”Som pastor ville Thomas inte ha något att göra med kyrkor han uppfattade som för öppna i HBTQ-frågor. För personlig vägledning hänvisade han sin son till en pastor som föresatte sig att driva Satan ur honom.” Idag läser vi @eklindkloo.bsky.social. arbetet.se/2026/10/13/p...

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Pappan ville bota Andreas Wijks homosexualitet med bön

Nu berättar han sonens historia.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 17h

❤️‍🩹 A Danish volunteer shared footage of evacuating an elderly resident from the frontline toward Kramatorsk.

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Arno Peper @arnopeper.bsky.social · 11h

Heute erinnert @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social u.a. an den Geburtstag von Jean Stolowicz 🖤💔, der im Alter von einem Jahr nach Auschwitz deportiert u. dort in der Gaskammer ermordet wurde, weil er Jude war. Möge seine Seele in Frieden ruhen 🙏 #KeinVergessen #KeinVerblassen #NieWieder

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12h

He had leverage on Ukraine earlier, but empty promises (Tomahawks, Patriot license, crushing sanctions) and no new aid reduced it. The Ukrainians, of course, weren't going to needlessly antagonize him and humoured the silly Witkoff/Kushner trips but he overplayed his hand w the latest.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12h

He can hate Zelensky all he wants but he's constrained in how much he can harm him and Ukraine. Talking to Putin and hatching amazing ideas to help each other doesn't mean much in practice if he can’t stop PURL or intelligence sharing because US would lose lots of money and access to Ukr know how…

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12h

“Zelensky is overplaying his hand” a White House official reportedly told The Atlantic. Imo, Trump will find out soon that it is he who overplayed his hand. He's trying to help Putin, pressure Ukraine, and boost his midterm results, but he's likely to fail at all three…

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 21h

I am tired of hearing How complicated this war is. A country invaded another country. People are being killed in their homes. What exactly is so complicated about that? #ukraine #russia #war #ukrainians #ukrainiangirl

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 12h

Report: Multiple Ukrainian government and military officials threatened with US intel and PURL cutoff if Russian refineries are hit. The idea that the US may send Patriots to protect Russian refineries from Ukrainian strikes no longer seems as funny as it did a few days ago. 🤯

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 11h

A horrific night in Kharkiv. Russia struck the city again and again. Two of those strikes hit residential buildings. Three people were killed. As rescuers worked to reach those trapped beneath the ruins, part of the damaged building collapsed, injuring a rescuer. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hence the purpose of the "Manifesto": demonstrate that FN is pure and uncompromising, by disseminating the document with very obvious references to Fascist "values" and key ideas. If you can read Italian, you can spot them all yourself: futuronazionale.it/manifesto/

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Vannacci has embraced a simple strategy that is turning out to be very effective (so far). He's targeting a niche of the electorate, the most extreme, aiming to consolidate his support at around 10%. This would be more than enough (he thinks) to force Meloni's hand & be accepted into her coalition.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The first thing to note is that the Manifesto is not a manifesto, or party programme. It advocates absolutely no policies whatsoever (as you will see in a moment). It should have been called: "A Statement of Values", or something like this. Its purpose? Bear with me.

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Frederik Hoedeman @longinsights.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russias lust for geoengineering is unchanged since Borisovs mad Soviet Amoc-plan: By betting on geoengineering, Russia could argue its plan to largely avoid transition measures is fine and that its ok to continue expanding oil, gas, coal. 🫣It could potentially even convince Europe in the process.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A conservative Danish politician explains why it his impossible for Europeans to view an America governed by Trump as an ally.

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Dejan Pantic @serbianism.com · 09/10/2026

Russian agitprop is trying to hype up the conviction of the Latvian woman and present the EU as "authoritarian". One of the chief messages of Russian, Chinese, and their satellites' propaganda is that democracies are no better than dictatorships and authoritarianism.

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Mio Kapor @miokapor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

– Russians and Serbs: brothers forever – The collective West “broke up” Yugoslavia as a dress rehearsal for breaking up Russia – The collective West is “against” the Serbs – Putin and Russia “always wanted peace” with the “alienated” 🇺🇦, but the collective West would not allow it K1 TV, Oct. 7, 2026.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"historical fascism’s lust for violence didn’t make it repulsive but extremely attractive to a lot of German voters. And we are seeing similar things with the AfD today, where fantasies of violent retribution seem to be integral to campaign events on market squares." ... And not only Germany

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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong

In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t. On Monday, EU Foreign Ministers intend to approve the biggest set of sanctions listings targeting Russia’s war machine since the start of the war.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Russian strikes killed over 80 Ukrainian civilians in two days. Moreover, it has stepped up its hybrid attacks against Europe, both EU Member States and NATO Allies. Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war.

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Axel Klanderud @klanderverdig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Spesielt at Norge ikke er med her.

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Hans Tino Hansen @hanstino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Denmark is finally getting serious on counter-drone defence after being caught hands down in September 2025, where 🇩🇰Danish soldiers protecting 🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers only had rifles to counter drones at the Boris training ground Several agreements have been made public including: (5 posts)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.

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Martin Denemark @martindenemark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

10.říjen - Světový den bezdomovectví. Komu přispějete? Já tradičně Armádě spásy na Nocleženky a Ošetřenky.

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Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"I want to thank President Putin"

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Deník N @denikn.cz · 09/10/2026

Petr Pavel se nečekaně vrátil ze zahraniční dovolené. Krátce před třetí hodinou odvolil v místních volbách. 👉🏻 Přečtěte si celý článek na denikn.cz/2211539

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Latest Sicilian politician involved in corruption scandals hid thousands of Euros inside a grandfather clock in his office. When a workman came to remove carpets for cleaning he moved the clock and a bag stuffed with cash fell out. He looked inside & put it back. The honesty of the ordinary person.

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Il tesoro trovato dagli operai. L’ira di Armao sulle segretarie

Una borsa piena di contanti cade dall’orologio a pendolo mentre vengono rimossi i tappeti nello studio dell’ex assessore. Le urla alle dipendenti: «Li voglio adesso»

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In case you had any doubts about what Vannacci's fascist 'Futuro Nazionale' party stands for...

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We find, across machine learning models, cross-sectional models and panel fixed effects models, that democracy and development are among the strongest predictors of descriptive representation. Representation gaps are smallest in Scandinavia and largest in Cambodia, Eritrea, and North Korea.

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The Lost Comms 🇳🇴 🇪🇺 @thelostcomms.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Chinese-owned hire cars filmed secret exercise: Videos of soldiers and access codes recorded During the ‘Hovedstad’ exercise in September, Home Guard personnel discovered that the vehicles had a recording function that nobody had asked for, nor had they been informed about.

The image is a stock photo and does not show the incident in which Chinese-owned hire cars are said to have recorded a video. Photo: Cornelius Poppe/NTB

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The similiarities to Mao Zedong are becoming eerie

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

⚡️🇨🇳🇩🇪“The German government has prohibited the sale of 80% of the Hamburg-based logistics company Zippel to the Chinese state-owned shipping company Cosco due to security concerns. A spokesperson for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy announced this after a cabinet meeting.”

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Bundesregierung stoppt Cosco-Einstieg bei Zippel aus Sicherheitsgründen

Die Bundesregierung untersagt den Verkauf von 80 Prozent an Zippel an Cosco. Sicherheitsbedenken und Risiken für deutsche und europäische Lieferketten geben den Ausschlag.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On 6 October, Russia, via Belarus, sharply raised the level of provocation on the border with Latvia. At least 20 migrants were accompanied by armed people in masks who threatened Latvian troops and forcibly directed people across the border⤵️

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DocGaby @docgaby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gegen Hanning wird unter anderem wegen des Verdachts auf landesverräterische Ausspähung, Auskundschaften von Staatsgeheimnissen, versuchten Landesverrat und geheimdienstliche Agententätigkeit ermittelt.

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Ex-Geheimdienstchef Hanning wegen Spionageverdacht verhaftet

Der frühere BND-Präsident August Hanning ist nach übereinstimmenden Medienberichten festgenommen worden. Gegen ihn stehen schwere Vorwürfe im Raum.

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Donbas was never russian. It was Cossack land, Then a part of the Ukrainian SSR. Ukrainian voices, songs, traditions - All lived there, long before tanks came. russia rewrites history To justify bombs. But truth doesn’t burn so easily. Donbas remembers. And Ukraine remembers too.

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I like the term used by the Sahaidachnyi Security Center in Kyiv (not on Bluesky, I think): 'The Everywhere War': sahasec.org/tracker/. Russian officials keep telling us that Russia is at war with the West; Western officials seem very slow to believe them, in spite of the evidence.

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The Everywhere War – Sub-Threshold Warfare Tracker

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every Kremlin accusation is a confession.

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Frederik Hoedeman @longinsights.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The Artificial State is the factory farming of humans, the sorting and segmenting, the isolation and alienation, as if humans were becoming to machines what animals had become to humans.” —Jill Lepore

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/09/2026

Do we really have to worry about the lawlessness of robots? Isn’t there already enough to make you pull your hair out? Unfortunately, we do, Jill Lepore writes. And that burden falls most heavily on the U.S. legal system. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Is A.I. Above the Law?

Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own.

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Hans de Clercq @hansdeclercq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Zondermeer afgelopen maanden veel goeds te lezen over macht van techoligarchen & de digitale ontwrichting van de liberale democratie. Nu nog Klein & Taylor en de nieuwe Jill Lepore nog te gaan. Maar erg vrolijk word je er niet van.

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DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · 29/09/2026

Dass KI zum Weltuntergang führen könnte, stimuliert die menschliche Angstlust, sagt die Harvard-Historikerin Jill Lepore. Ihre Sorgen vor KI sind andere.

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Jill Lepore: »Es ist, als würde ich die Kontrolle über mein Leben verlieren«

Dass KI zum Weltuntergang führen könnte, stimuliert die menschliche Angstlust, sagt die Harvard-Historikerin Jill Lepore. Ihre Sorgen vor KI sind andere.

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