Marthine Satris

@msatris.bsky.social

Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.

www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage

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Next Saturday, October 17th, for International Repair Day, hundreds of events will bring people together to celebrate the power and promise of repair. Repair thinking has long animated this journal. Read on for some of our essential reads on the repair of our built and natural environments.

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Just learned about this Beckett quote for the first time (I've read all his plays quite a few times, just not his prose!): First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. -Worstword Ho

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(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

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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What's happening is that a lot of stuff is starting to happen in real life again, and that stuff kind of slots onto the social media sites that best serve it. Got a race or class war? That's gonna be a Twitter thing right there. Somebody write your name wrong at Starbucks? Welcome to Threads.

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Oh my people: "rather than make Carson, a classics professor, a lucrative offer, [Laughlin] 'was flirting with her in Latin and Greek,' Epler said, adding, 'He didn’t understand how much she needed money — he just didn’t get it.'”

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