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Mark O'Sullivan PhD

@markstkhlm.bsky.social

Associate professor Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Blog: https://footblogball.wordpress.com/ Music https://themightyquark.bandcamp.com/album/the-mighty-quark-presents-the-king-syndrome-sound

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Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

BTW, even if there is an exodus because of a wealth tax - fuck those people who don't want to pay their share. Never let them back into the country again.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3w ago

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,…
Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remarkable wording in the announcement of the Nobel Peace prize. Seemingly it's OK to point out that Pilay is chair of a court in which "Myanmar stands accused of genocide", but not that she chaired a UN commission that found that Israel is committing genocide in the Occupied Palestinian territory?

Screenshot of a text that says: This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide. THe words "Myanmar stands accused of genocide" are highlighted.
Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't tell him I said this, but Mark is consistently the smartest voice in any room he's in talking about sport and children's place in it - and of course, the FAI wouldn't let him within an ass's roar of whatever flaming pile of stinking garbage their current "youth development" plan is.

Mark O'Sullivan PhD@markstkhlm.bsky.social · 4w ago

New article in the Irish Examiner The illusion of professionalism - when football system designed to serve children starts serving itself Systems don’t rise to the level of their goals, they fall to the level of their design. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer...

Mark O'Sullivan PhD@markstkhlm.bsky.social · 4w ago

New article in the Irish Examiner The illusion of professionalism - when football system designed to serve children starts serving itself Systems don’t rise to the level of their goals, they fall to the level of their design. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer...

The illusion of professionalism - when football system designed to serve children starts serving itself

Systems don’t rise to the level of their goals, they fall to the level of their design.

irishexaminer.com

Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ@rajannaidu.bsky.social · last mo.

The Irish people will soon make up their own minds as to whether they are, or they are not, in favour of the Apartheid regime of Israel's settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, infanticide, genocide, collective punishment of the Palestinian people, wanton destruction www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Europe: Israel’s participation in the UEFA Nations League is a betrayal of Palestinians, football's own rules and human rights

Despite clear evidence that Israel’s football association continues to support illegal settlements, Israel men’s football team will participate in the UEFA Nations League this autumn.

amnesty.org

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Statement from President Connolly: We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked. I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.

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Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

... is continue to state the facts and report what I see on the ground. The reason I do so is because I have read the books, visited the places & seen the graves of Nazism's victims. I am not afraid for myself. I am afraid for Sweden. So I'll say it one more time: No pasarán. Not now. Not ever.

Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In 1933, a retirement home for Jewish people opened at Lützowstrasse 48/49 in Berlin, a place for them to live their remaining days in dignity. In 1939, it was taken over by the Nazis, who turned it into a propaganda office for HItler's Schutzstaffel - better known as the SS. (1/n)

Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sweden has already done this btw - hard/far-right is lobbying the hard of thinking with their "great replacement" horseshit, and idiot politicians are swallowing it whole.

Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Although changes will not impact Brit citizens under the >Common Travel Area Agreement<. However Irish/EU passports will be HARDER to get with increased residency requirements & discussions on language tests - some politicos want to include Irish in this.

Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Katie Taylor is Ireland's greatest-ever athlete, and I'm so thankful she gets to walk away on her own terms. A warrior, a winner and a woman whose pride in her country and her sport was never in doubt or besmirched. We will never see the likes of her again.