N01

• Government and Labour in Talks About Budget Deal
• Envy and Racism - Emotional Issues Used in Election Campaign

N02

Tuesday, 31 August, 1999
Progress Party Losing to Conservatives 

• Progress Party Losing to Conservatives 

N03

Friday, 10 September, 1999
Labour Towards Record Low

• Labour in Deep Trouble
• Stoltenberg Take-Over May Recapture Leading Position Before 2001 Election
• Conservatives May Win Election, Close to Regain 1995 Level

N04

Tuesday, 14 September, 1999
Conservatives Win Election

• Conservatives Win Election

N05

Wednesday, 15 September, 1999
Towards 2001

• Towards 2001 - the End of Consensus? 
• Conservatives Demand Place in Government, Likely to Happen Under Current Trends
• Budget Solution Will Influence Timing, Hardly End Result 
• Conflict Between Value Creation and Big Government Maturing 
• Labour Choice May Break Trends, Create New Paradigms 
• "Stoltenberg" Scenario: Rapid Liberal Change 
• "Valla" Scenario: New Coalitions, Slower Change

N06

Friday, 1 October, 1999
In Front of the Budget Proposal

• Complete Uncertainty in Front of Monday Budget Speech

N07

Wednesday, 6 October, 1999
A Game of Pandora's Boxes

• Budget Process an Exercise in Game Playing

N08

Thursday, 14 October, 1999 
Jaglandto Sacrifice Industry's Interests

• Labour Losing Interest in Business & Industry, Wants Payment for Budget Deal in "Socialist Currency"
• Labour-Governtment Deal in Round One Cannot Now Be Excluded

N09

Monday, 25 October, 1999
Mr Hagen's "State Light" Strategy

• State Control by Proxy to Reduce Dangers of State Capitalism? 
• The Answer to the Christiania Bank Problem? 
• A Solution to the Riddle of Progress Party Strategy

N10

Tuesday, 26 October, 1999
Now There is a Real Choice

• Conservatives Propose 9 bn Tax Cuts, giving Bondevik Clear Choice 
• A "Centrist" Game of Ping Pong?

N11

Friday, 29 October, 1999
Fears Verified

• Tax Increase must be Paid by Business

N12

Monday, 22 November, 1999
The Rulers of Law

• A New Class: The Rulers of Law 
• Business Victimising Itself by Default

N13

Friday, 10 December, 1999
Privatise First!

• Privatise First!

N14

Wednesday, 15 December, 1999
State Wars

• Tele Merger Likely to be Undone 
• Government Crisis in Norway on this Issue Unlikely

N15

Monday, 20 December, 1999
Towardsa Showdown

• Three Connected Issues may Converge to Major Political Showdown 
• Bondevik not much to Blame for Tele Merger; Labour Preparing for War 
• Bondevik has Strong Case on IT Fornebu; Another War with Labour? 
• Labour Itself "Defendant" in Gardermoen Hearings

N16

Wednesday, 5 January 2000
Clearance for Gas Power

• Labour Joins Conservatives, Progress on Gas Power Plants 
• No Government Crisis Likely When Government Loses this Issue

N17

Monday, 10 January 2000
A New Kings Bay

• Long Way from Train Pilot to Bondevik 
• Situation Will be Compared With Kings Bay 1963 
• Politicians Fooling Themselves Because of Ideology?

N18

Monday, 10 January 2000
Back to the Future

• Government Signals Important Tax Improvements 
• Overture to a Renewed Alliance with the Right?

N19

Wednesday, 12 January 2000
A New Political Structure

• Strong Movements in First 2000 Opinion Survey 
• How May Parties Respond to New Trends? 
• A Stable Non-Socialist Coalition Post-2001 Within Reach 

N20

Friday, 21 January 2000
Government Decides Its Own Fate

• If Government Resigns, it Will be Over Gas Power

N21

Monday, 1 February 2000
Norway and Europe

• Labour's New EU Efforts Not Void of Tactical Aspects 
• Sensible to Secure Freedom of Action on EU Issue 
• EU's Action Against Austria May Work Both Ways on Norwegian PublicOpinion

N22

Friday, 4 February 2000
Aker RGI Out of the Fog

• Government Approves Røkke Buy-Up 
• Legal Doubts Removed by Critics' Own Action 
• Issue Puts Industry's Moral Rearmament in Perspective

N23

Thursday, 10 February 2000
Labour's Hurdle Track

• Labour May Change to Stoltenberg, Immediate Gain Likely 
• Inherent Political Conflicts Will Remain and Enforce Difficult Choices 
• New Focus on Labour's History of Overt and Covert Power Abuse

N24

Friday, 11 February 2000
Change Without Aim

• Stoltenberg to Share Power with Jagland 
• No Political or Any Other Conditions Set by Stoltenberg 
• Unpredictability Will Continue 
• Stoltenberg's Advantages and Appeal Likely to Erode By Time 
• Unlikely that Stoltenberg will Lead Labour to Liberal Policies

N25

Monday, 14 February 2000
End of Protest Party

• Progress Party Wants to Become "Responsible" 
• Invites All Non-Socialists to Broad Government Coalition

N26

Wednesday, 16 February 2000
Psychological War is On

• Government Spokesmen Prepare for Ultimatum to Parliament 
• Opposition Parties Prepare Protection Against Ultimatum 
• Progress Party May Sit With One of Several Possible Keys to Government's Survival

N27

Thursday, 17 February 2000
Escape Routes Closing - and Opening

• Majority Determined to Allow Gas Power Now 
• Government Parties Stepping Up Rethoric, Difficult to Climb Down 
• New Compromise Offered: Make Gas Power Companies Pay 
• Bondevik's Final Escape Options 
• Climate Paradigms Anyway Significantly Weakened

N28

Monday, 21 February 2000
More Options Closing

• Only Surrender Likely to Save Bondevik Now 
• Government Party Grassroots and Gas Power Opponents say Government Should Stay in Office
• Increased Labour Support Hurts all Non-Socialists 
• Stoltenberg's Policy Priorities: Negative for Business and Taxpayers

N29

Tuesday, 22 February 2000
Even Odds for Jens

• Two to One that Bondevik Will Resign over Gas Power 
• Three to One that Stoltenberg Will Take Over After a Crisis 
• Main Alternate Option: Redefine Principle of Parliamentarism 
• Many Other Scenarios Possible, None Very Likely

N30

Friday, 25 February 2000
Majority Won't Send Bill to Tax-Payers

• Labour not Tempted by Government Parties' Offer to Spend Billions to Solve Crisis 
• Fornebu Issue to Re-enter Stage - as Proxy for Gas Power?

N31

Thursday, 2 March 2000
Energy White Paper Demolished

• Majority for Gas Power as Expected 
• Majority Opposes Energy Tax Hike 
• Majority Wants to Use "Renewables Fund" for Hydro Power and Gas Grids 
• Odds Still Favour Government Crisis, But Can Be Avoided

N32

Friday, 3 March 2000 
Gardermoen, Fornebu, Banks, Gas Power

• Odds for Government's Survival Slightly Improving 
• Fornebu Majority Ally Circumvents Government On Deal With State Utility 
• Committee Spokesman Says Gardermoen Decision May Have Been Illegally Manipulated 
• Labour Says No To Giant Bank Merger 
• Centre Party Regional Leaders Say Government Should Accept Gas Power Defeat 

N33

Tuesday, 7 March, 2000
First Hurdle Overcome

• Government Will Survive Until Thursday
• Consequences of Gas Power Decision Still Uncertain

N34

Wednesday, 8 March, 2000
Bondevik May Have Done It Again

• Ministry of Justice to Bondevik's Rescue
• Odds for Government's Survival Now High
• Labour's Past Its Worst Enemy: Pollution Act a Strait Jacket
• Progress Party May Jump off in Effort to Save Government
• Pollution Act May Have to be Amended

N35

Thursday, 9 March, 2000
End Gambit

• Majority Opens for Amendment of Pollution Act
• Legal Memo Neutralised, Bondevik's Odds Changing Again
• Next Move is Bondevik's - We Have a Good Suggestion; Will he See It?

N36

Friday, 10 March, 2000
Stoltenberg Soon In Office

• Stoltenberg to Become Premier With No Non-Socialist Discussions
• Centrist Parties Have Turned Down Conservative Invitation
• Centre to Try to Remain as Unified Block, Will Disintegrate in Practise
• Path to New Power for All Non-Socialists Through Broader AlliancesOnly
• Why Labour and Conservatives Could Not Vote for Bondevik's Escape Motion

N37

Tuesday, 14 March, 2000
Waiting for Jens

• Stoltenberg Government Takes Office on Friday
• Non-Socialists Positioning for 2001
• Last Kind Regard from Nationalist Minister

N38

Monday, 20 March, 2000
A Normal Labour Government

• Like Former Labour Governments, Perhaps Slightly More Moderate
• Mapping Labour's Factions In Government And In General
• Internal Problems More Important, Easy To Deal With Parliament
• Conservatives Punished for Crisis, Demands for Leadership Change

N39

Friday, 24 March, 2000
Major Problems for Conservatives

• Conservatives End Up With Blame for Bondevik's Fall
• Public Opinion Turns Against Conservative Leader
• Irony: Result of More, But Not Enough Courage
• Conservatives Pay For Legitimisation of Progress Party

N40

Wednesday, 27 April, 2000
What Future For LO?

• High Risk of Major Strike, Won't Last Long
• Offshore Sector Not Included Unless Strike Lasts a Month
• Fundamental Norwegian Labour Market Paradigms Challenged
• Two Scenarios for Long Term Change

N41

Tuesday, 2 May, 2000
Moral Bankruptcy

• Do Strikers Want Egalitarianism - Or Fair Reward?
• Why Can't Politicians and Business Leaders Make a Choice?
• Employers' Statement Revealing for Core Nature of System

N42

Tuesday, 9 May, 2000
Antagonists With Common Destiny

• Conservatives Ready to Fend for Themselves
• Progress Party Trying to Dress Up for Good Society
• Two Parties With Very Different Style, Not So Different Policy

N43

Tuesday, 9 May, 2000
Musical Money, Tune Deaf Politicians

• Strike Ended This Morning; More Pay and Benefits
• Interest Rates and Tax Will Eat It All Up
• Politicians Quarrel But Not About Fundamental Issues

N44

Tuesday, 16 May, 2000
Too Much State

• Welfare and Investment Cuts in Proposal for Budget Revision
• Tough Job to Create Majority in Parliament
• Too Large State Can't Solve Primary Responsibilities
• Lack of System Efficiency Aggravates Cost Push

N45

Wednesday, 24 May, 2000
Statism's Failure

• No Giant Bank Merger But Full Privatisation of Christiania Bank
• No Merger Statoil-SDFI
• Partial Privatisation of Statoil and Telenor
• Will Adjustments to Reality Lead to True Understanding?

N46

Thursday, 25 May, 2000
Can Public Spending be Non-Inflationary?

• Hospital Investment Cuts Seen As Irrational
• Should Students Abroad be Compensated for Weak Currency?
• Can Public Spending Be Non-Inflationary?

N47

Thursday, 8 June, 2000
Living Dinosaurs

• What Happened to Labour's Party Discipline?

N48

Tuesday, 13 June, 2000
Plus Ca Change...

• Dramatic Labour Losses on Opinion Surveys
• Labour's Problems Independent of Individuals
• Budget Alliance With Centrist Parties Broken; Trouble in the Autumn
• The Easiest Way - to Defeat

N49

Monday, 31 July, 2000
Towards a New Purge?

• Xenophobia Must Go If Progress Party is to Join Good Society
• Will Carl I. Hagen Execute a New Purge?
• Full Non-Socialist Reconciliation Labour's Worst Nightmare
• Political Survey This Morning: Labour Only 6.1% Ahead of Hagen

N50

Friday, 4 August, 2000
Bondevik Again - for a Long Time?

• Bondevik To Take Four New Years
• Two Former Labour Ministers Illustrate Polarisation Within Labour
• Two Current Ministers In Conflict Over Privatisation
• A Bondevik Era After 2001?

N51

Wednesday, 16 August, 2000
A Pink Cat

• Labour: A New "New Deal", Even Bigger This Time
• Power Floating Back to Jagland?

N52

Wednesday, 16 August, 2000
Centre Party Preying on Labour's Left

• Centre Party on Guard for Welfare State
• Liberals Polishing its Own Profile
• Hagen Argues Against Opening Door to EU

N53

Friday, 25 August, 2000
None, One or Two Taxes on Norwegian Owners?

• Government Postpones Bank/Tele Privatisation
• Assumed to Signal Tax on Dividends
• New Tax for Old - Or Just a New?
• Progress Party Breathing Down Labour's Neck

N54

Thursday, 31 August, 2000
The Final Let-Down

• Progress Party Moving Ahead of Labour
• Survival of Stoltenberg/Jagland Team Not a Certainty

N55

Monday, 4 September, 2000
Are Voters Stupid?

• Voters Look Beyond Rhetoric
• Hagen's Credibility As Bad or Good as Any Other's
• A Free Idea for the Conservatives

N56

Wednesday, 6 September, 2000
Petroleum Tax Onshore?

• Government Wants to Tax Dividends Twice
• "Resource Rent Tax" Also When No Resource Rent?
• Labour Now Trailing Progress Party By 4%

N57

Monday, 18 September, 2000
Preying on Inefficiency

• Power Struggle in Orkla
• Progress Party 34%, Labour 22-23%
• "Raiders" and "White Knights" in Industry and Politics

N58

Thursday, 21 September, 2000
Fifty-fifty Again

• Christians Eager to Get Back in Government
• Liberal Leader More So, Says No to Budget Deal
• But Centre Party Says Government Crisis is Undesirable

N59

Friday, 22 September, 2000
The Brilliant Nerd

• Conservatives Present Draft Policy Platform
• Everything is Right, So What's Wrong?

N60

Tuesday, 26 September, 2000
Passinga Milestone

• Conservatives Open for Progress Party in Government
• Condition: No More Harassment of Immigrants

N61

Monday, 9 October, 2000
A Red Budget

• Budget Proposal Will Not Appeal to Voters
• Inadequate Economic Theory Leading Policy Astray
• Centrists Tempted to Take Revenge
• Gas Power Finally Fully Acceptable, Complicating Budget Process

N62

Tuesday, 17 October, 2000
Libertarianism With Gaping Holes

• Libertarian Platform Draft; Two Important Exceptions
• Final Judgement Subject to Daily Political Practice

N63

Thursday, 19 October, 2000
Unlawful Safety

• Gardermoen Airport Instructed Not to Pollute Subsoil Water

N64

Wednesday, 25 October, 2000
A Matter of Timing

• Stoltenberg Tied to KGB Code Name, Declared Innocent
• Same Procedure As When Jagland was Named in 1997

N65

Tuesday, 31 October, 2000
Skinning Us - or Us?

• Labour/Centrist Negotiations Have Started
• Centrist Parties Propose More Ordinary Tax or More VAT
• Will Stoltenberg Call Bondevik's Bluff?
• Will Enoksen Find Himself a Fall Guy?

N66

Monday, 20 November, 2000
The Profiler

• Budget Deal Shifts Some of Burden From Business to Individuals
• NHO: No Real Improvement Compared to Budget Proposal
• Bondevik: It's Our Profile
• Stoltenberg: It's Our, Too!

N67

Monday, 27 November, 2000
Fringe Fuss

• Progress Party To Throw Out Xenophobes
• Socialist Left Party Leader Tired of Internal Conflict

N68

Wednesday, 29 November, 2000
New Philosophies Required

• Budget Compromise Confirmed
• Norway Becoming Dangerously Unpredictable
• The Main Economic-Political Camps and Their Shortcomings
• What Philosophy to Carry Norway into the Knowledge Economy?

N69

Tuesday, 19 December, 2000
Boomerang

• Coming Union Boss Wants to Discriminate Against Non-Members

N70

Friday, 22 December, 2000
Who’s the Meanest Dictator?

• Stoltenberg Won't Go Voluntarily
• Hagen and his Fringe: Gain or Loss?
• Bondevik's Choices