Øyvind Thomassen: Expansive monetary policy does not provide higher prices or demand when the public does not want to loan for consumption.

Øyvind Thomassen: The central banks are involved in a poker game where they have bluffed at least since the financial crisis. And they dare not do anything but raise in each round.

Øyvind Thomassen: If house prices ever fall considerably that will lead to an economic decline. Will the government save highly leveraged homeowners?

Øyvind Thomassen: Wealth tax is not significant when it comes to financing of new projects. The exception is small firms that have to finance investments with own funds.

Øyvind Thomassen: The extremely expansive monetary policy causes that income is mainly determined by how much you already have. The risk is that the support of the market economy disintegrates.

Øyvind Thomassen: The US central bank has, since March last year, printed new dollar bills worth more than three Norwegian oil funds, money they have spent on buying securities. Has that blown up the capacity in the economy and created lasting, troublesome inflation?

Øyvind Thomassen: Investment in new business activity may just as well be made with employment income as with a company's profit.

Øyvind Thomassen: It is contractors with good ideas, good noses and power of implementation that are lacking, not the capitalists money.

Øyvind Thomassen: The Conservative Party should be the natural choice for all of us who believe in a Norwegian version of capitalism. Instead it has become the party supporting big capitalists.

Øyvind Thomassen: It is always the rich people, those with the biggest possessions of shares and property, who are saved by the central banks.

Øyvind Thomassen: A new Norwegian Parliament, where the central point has shifted towards the centre and the left, has a unique opportunity to pass a progressive wealth tax that should have a far broader appeal among voters than the current wealth tax.