Axel Nerdrum
@axelpax.bsky.social
Rent seeking economist. My views are (sadly) only my own.
I mars 2024 omtalte Aftenposten meg som ekstrem fordi jeg mente at politikerne ikke skal sette mål for antall aborter i Norge, og at må være opp til den enkelte kvinne. I juni 2026 omtalte Aftenposten deltakerne på Norgesdemokratenes massedeportasjonskonferanse for «omstridte gjester».
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
propublica.org
One from the archives: "A video of Nigel Farage shows him saying that as an MEP he could earn as much as a Goldman Sachs banker through claiming expenses and employing his wife" (which he did) When Farage talks about how much he's supposedly sacrificed financially by going into politics...
Nigel Farage claims in video MEPs can earn like a Goldman Sachs banker
In footage from 1999 or 2000, the Ukip leader is heard criticising the MEP expense system as 'wrong' and 'monstrous'
theguardian.com
for the england match it's time for irish people to grow up a little and get over the performative hatred of an old enemy it's ancient history at this stage, we're kinda related to a bunch of them too so the posturing that so we're different is a bit crass let's put the viking raids behind us 💙🇳🇴❤️
Rart hvordan pingle-woke-tull som «alle skal være med», «vi topper ikke laget her», «idealtid», «alle skal ha det moro» og «gjør ditt beste du», skaper enere og lagspillere i den absolutte verdenstoppen. Håper verdenspressen skriver litt om det. Det kan jo faktisk bety noe for folk.
Children’s Games (detail), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560, 📸 by @kgmadeit1
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
Heat reduces time spent working, especially in weather-exposed sectors such as agriculture, construction and manufacturing, with time reallocated to indoor non-work activities. Evidence:
The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/
Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.
Why Spain’s electricity bills have fallen during an energy crisis
Homes and business are benefitting from Spain's commitment to clean energy.
euronews.com
One thing we mean when we talk about "stronger social norms" is racist chants, slurs not seen as normal by most normal people. Football did more than anything else to put the idea of "zero tolerance" into practice. Elon Musk's X is doing more/trying harder than anyone else to renormalise racism
Angrer på at jeg ikke foreslo Norgespris på øl under vm.
Has your Nation ever lost 7-1 to Germany at the World Cup?
This report on AI in tech sounds pretty interesting and confirms a lot of my experience/suspicions. TL;DR Developer productivity is marginally up, however, incidents and bugs and way up. Source: www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...
"Bak det tilslørende ordet «remigrasjon» forsøker Norgesdemokratene å gjøre masseutkastelse spiselig." God lesing fra Lasse Josephsen www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
Vi må forstå hva som skjer: Norgesdemokratenes konferanse handler om etnisk rensing i Europa
Les Lasse Josephsens kronikk.
aftenposten.no
The USA is doing sportswashing all wrong. The idea is you do a Russia or a Qatar and welcome everyone in, trying to appear super-cute so that people stop thinking about your appalling human rights violations and corruption. You're not meant to shine a light on it. Stupid country.
I går skrev jeg i Nationen, etter at kommentator Eva Nordlund har omtalt det som en «Ap-myte» at Jens Stoltenberg knytter de høye norske strømprisene høsten 2021 til Russland. Men Nordlund tar feil: Flere energimyndigheter peker i stor grad på Russland. www.nationen.no/nationens-st...
Nationens strøm-myte
Det er mye feilinformasjon i strømdebatten. Det blir ikke bedre av at Nationen feilaktig angriper Jens Stoltenberg for å ha knyttet strømkrisen høsten 2021 til Russland.
nationen.no
OIne of the more surprising pieces of news. Hungary, under a center right prime minister, might be the first European country to impose a wealth tax since the 1980s www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax
New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity
theguardian.com
Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 3mo agohonestly haven't felt this hopeful about climate in a *while*
Hysteresis and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The ‘Ordinary Men’ of the Nazi Party: Matthias Weigand
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org
I've been touting the inevitable win of electric trucks over combustion and hydrogen trucks for over 10 years now. Glad to see it's finally happening. www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bus...
Cheaper, cleaner electric trucks overhaul China’s logistics
While the country's prowess in electric passenger vehicles has long been known globally, electric trucks have only recently gained traction.
freemalaysiatoday.com
Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...
Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox
The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote
janrosenow.substack.com
39 countries cut energy taxes after the Iran war. Politically popular but self-defeating: untargeted subsidies blunt the price signals, lead to higher demand, cost the tax payer significantly more and provide less incentive to invest in alternatives.
Dette er ikke nytt for mange av oss, men virkelig på sin plass at det gjentas. Masse bra folk henter det de tror er fakta fra Motvind-gjengen og bidrar på den måten til at de vokser og desinformasjon spres mer. Moralen er: Vær kritisk. Selv de som appellerer til deg i sak.
Vindkraftlobby: Motvind Norge ledende innen spredning av desinformasjon i Europa
Den norske gruppen Motvind er Europas nest største spreder av innhold kritisk mot vindkraft, ifølge Wind Europe. Motvind selv avviser påstandene i rapporten.
tu.no
Sjokk skaper innovasjon og trigger omstilling, skriver Kristin Linnerud og jeg i DN Noe å tenke på også for Omstillingskommisjonen www.dn.no/innlegg/iran...
Sjokk skaper innovasjon og trigger omstilling
Hva skjer når olje og gass blir brukt som et våpen? Historien viser at det kan trigge omfattende, innovative og irreversibel omstilling. Kortsiktig, norsk gevinst må ikke brukes som sovepute.
dn.no
