Currently, receiving a cold call at any time can be a dramator, but Norway’s Minister of Finance, according to the reports, gave a more surprising ring in the streets of Oslo earlier this month.
According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, the person who called cold was the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the application for Norway Minister of Finance, Jens Stoltenberg, was how the US leader could be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump has been publicly explicit about his desire to receive the prize, which some say it is a driving factor behind their efforts to negotiate a peace agreement for Ukraine and Russia, as well as its approach to Israel and Gaza.
But in June he went to Truth Social to complain: “No, I will not get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what, including Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Iran, whatever these results are, but people know it, and that is all that matters to me!”
This week, it will be Trump’s impact on the economy that focuses, since the Nobel Awards group which apparently hopes will meet for its annual event in Lindau, Germany.
It could make the awkward listening to the White House, with one of the most famous Nobel Prize -winning economists, Joseph Stiglitz told The Guardian that “the United States has become, I would say, a scary place to invest.” The Tariff Policy of the Administration runs the risk of provoking stagflation in a movement that is making the Federal Reserve “clearly worried,” Stiglitz said earlier this year.
The laureate Nobel Roger Myerson, who also attends the event in Lindau, is more concerned with American politics, writing in an opinion article for the hill that “when large groups of voters have convinced themselves that only one party really cares about them, then they can feel no participation in democracy itself … and support their leader in shaking their inconvenient constitutional restrictions.”
Meanwhile, the Nobel Prize Simon Johnson has also expressed its concerns about American isolationism, telling the Podcast of the Nobel Prize Conversations that is “… destroying human capital and delivering a great advantage to geopolitical competitors. It is a silly self -taught action of the Trump administration.”
It is a hard crowd for President Trump. However, he has an unlikely supporter in his commitment to the Peace Prize. The former Democratic rival and the first lady Hillary Clinton recently said if she could end the war between Ukraine and Russia “without putting Ukraine in a position in which he must admit his territory to the aggressor … he would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
CNBC will speak live with Nobel Prizes of the meeting in Lindau on Wednesdays and Thursdays, tune in to listen to their views.
