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The Norwegian Corona - The Kramer Hates Again

The Norwegian state gets a lot of taxes from natural gas and petroleum, oil, etc. And what happened during a period of time in between 2015 and 2020 roughly was that they partly funded the Norwegian budget with these taxes. Over the course of 2022 due to these extreme spike in oil prices, but not least in natural gas prices, they are the most important here since the move was so big. They've reversed the course and started reversing the FX policy, selling the Norwegian Corona's every day, buying US dollars to match the flows from these tax payments. Now we've seen a complete meltdown in the price of natural gas, and they haven't adjusted the pace to the extent needed to match that

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