People will just say anything these days cc @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

A good day to travel from a current socialist hellhole ( 🇳🇴 ) to a future one ( 🗽).

Why do people make explicit references to history that they don’t understand? Quisling didn’t tell Norwegians to surrender in 1940, he tried to seize power during the invasion to make Norway a locally-ruled fascist state.

Scandal hits the United States of America as “Uncle” Sam revealed not to be sibling of the country’s parents.

Writing emails to “folks”: The acceptable face of America (It me)

People who don’t stack their empty bins after airport security

Én uke igjen!

Reading successful funding applications

This is correct, but I think can be put more simply as: Trump thinks winning the 2024 election gave him the whole country (its institutions and its wealth) as his property.

Great reporting except for the part about the 82nd Airborne “parachuting into” WWI. There was no parachute infantry in the First World War! Planes were way too small!

@timharford.ft.com: “the conflict [between Israel and Iran] has been de-escalated—with a lot of bombing, which doesn’t usually win you a Peace Prize, unless your name is Henry Kissinger.” 💀💀💀

There are no sources cited but this has more than 500 reposts. Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020. In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.

The people (who are interviewed by the New York Times) want deflation!

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

Leaving aside the vapidity of this piece, it does encapsulate how most people have no coherent view of the purpose of universities.

Cricket is a normal sport where the schedule of an eight-team tournament (the men’s Asia Cup) is set up purely so that India can play Pakistan three times in seven matches. 🙃

Once again, I am begging economists to think about job quality beyond wages. Death threats are still scary if you make $500k!

23% of Democrats want to limit Canadian students?? 🤯

TIL the Norwegian word for “gums” is «tannkjøtt», literally “tooth meat” 🥴

Surely there should have been some handicapping for the massive home track advantage of Vienna? Oslo finished 3rd using unfamiliar rolling stock!

In other news, the attacks on Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook for her mortgage applications look even more suspicious (and fabricated) now. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Høst i Norge, også kjent som monsunensesong 🌧️ 🌊

My favorite Google AI summaries are the ones you can see are wrong from looking at the previews of the first couple of search results underneath.

Tegn på at man blir norsk, reise-i-Nederland-episode: tenker «den er ikke en skog, den er for lite. Bare noen trær.»

The workers’ party in power

Alle nyheter er lokale nyheter

In a nutshell: authors write papers for free, other academics review them for free. When papers are accepted, publishers charge universities to access research mostly funded by the public, then on top of that publishers sell that very research to big tech companies for millions to train AI models.

Appropriately, the scene he is referencing from Apocalypse Now includes war crimes.

Call for Papers: 4th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games ❄️ in Economic History 📍 NTNU Trondheim 📅 29 January 2026 📄 CfP Deadline: 19 October Vi forventer noen berømte gjester fra Byåsen IL 👀 #econhist #EconSky #skystorians

Språkforvirret i Tyskland: Det er så mange steder med «ost» 🧀

You people really are going to turn me into the Official Neville Chamberlain Defender with these awful ahistorical takes about the Munich Agreement. When he returned to London he was greeted by cheering crowds who were desperate to avoid another world war! Britain wasn’t ready for war in 1938!

Erosion of norms in America a cautionary tale.

Just let Western European manufacturers sell a few more extra units to Kyrgyzstan (that definitely won’t end up in Russia) and everything will be fine.

What’s that, Ursula? I wouldn’t know the US commitments because they go to another school? Oh ok

There’s only one conclusion: Western Europe doesn’t actually want Ukraine to win.

Staying quiet will not save the Fed

It’s a workers’ party now

None of the authors of this study are historians. How many historians do we think they invited to comment on the paper before submission?

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

The basis of their business model is avoiding labor regulation

of course, what financiers wont tell you is that the 'price of money is inherently political' used to mean central banks as guardians of a distributional politics that favoured them.

we heterodox economists have been saying this for decades, but now Big Finance is saying it, you know it's the end of liberal macro institutions, a death brought to you by Donald Trump.

📢 New initiative: we are launching a monthly virtual seminar in French Economic History to share and discuss the latest research in the field! 🌍 Open to all interested in #econhist. 👉 Info & updates: sites.google.com/view/vwfhe/h...

UPDATE: Governor Cook has issued a statement. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”