True Patriot Love - May 06, 2026


Norway's $2 Trillion Secret： Oil, Funds & Global Power


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1 minute

Words per minute

183.8

Word count

261

Sentence count

2


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Norway has 2 Trillion dollars sitting in the world's largest hedge fund, the Norwegian Investment Fund. In this episode, learn about the history of the fund and how it got to where it's at today.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 let me ask you when norway created this fund yes what were they trying what problem were
00:00:06.080 they trying to solve was it a problem at the moment that they were trying to solve
00:00:10.160 they were they were trying to fall uh solve a couple problems number one they were trying to
00:00:15.760 solve the problem of making sure that they got returns from a finite resource so they understood
00:00:23.440 right away that oil was a wonderful resource to have in their country to have offshore but it was
00:00:28.960 finite right so they one day it potentially could run out so they decided that what they were going
00:00:35.600 to do is they were going to take the money they made from oil and reinvest it one of the other
00:00:40.720 things they decided was the challenge with having a resource that creates so much wealth that it
00:00:46.160 overheats your economy it actually stimulates your economy too much because once you get that
00:00:52.640 oil coming from that government subsidization it could potentially cause a high level of inflation
00:00:58.080 right so they said listen we're going to put uh spending caps and uh we're going to restrict
00:01:04.160 spending at home and force as much of the money abroad to globally reinvest now i'm going to give
00:01:11.360 you some numbers because this is going to knock you off your seat right so now when i'm this is
00:01:16.320 two trillion dollars sitting in this fund now so think about it since 1990 when they made this
00:01:21.200 strategic decision. So first of all, this fun starts up.