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‘Crying Wolf’: Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund CEO Issues Dire Warning After Record Profit

Nicolai Tangen said the $2.3 trillion fund could fall 40% to 50% in a crash driven by AI stocks, debt crises or climate shocks.

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And now, we bring you a message in Norse code. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $2.3 trillion Oil Fund, reported last week a record $184.3 billion profit in the first half of 2026, anchored by technology stocks at the heart of the AI boom. CEO Nicolai Tangen celebrated by warning the public that the Fund could one day be worth nothing, invoking nuclear war, biological weapons attacks and a catastrophic stock market collapse. T…

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Norway’s sovereign fund has issued an uncomfortable warning: the AI stock bubble may explode. I have read in detail the statements of Nicolai Tangen, CEO of the Government Pension Fund Global, and the message is strong. The fund manages $2.4 trillion (€2.07 trillion) and accumulated in the first half of 2026 a record profit of 1,753 billion Norwegian crowns, about 161 billion euros. The same technology that has driven those profits is now its ma…

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Bloomberg broke the news in New York, United States on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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