Global week ahead: Trump’s Nobel dreams meet economic reality

• Nobel Laureates to meet in Lindau, Germany this week.
• The meeting comes as U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly asked the Norwegian government how to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Trump policies make the U.S. a “scary place to invest,” says Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.
• U.S. isolationism is a “self-defeating foolish action by the Trump administration,” says Nobel Laureate Simon Jonhson.

In this day and age, receiving a cold call at any time can be disarming, but Norway’s finance minister reportedly took a most surprising ring on the streets of Oslo earlier this month.

According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, the cold caller was U.S. President Donald Trump, and the request for Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, was how the American leader could be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/global-week-ahead-trumps-nobel-dreams-meet-economic-reality.html