If Norway can’t make enough butter for everyone to slather on their eller mørkt rugbrød, shouldn’t they just import butter from abroad? The supermarket downstairs from my apartment has plenty of butter. Surely we could ship some to Oslo. The problem is that the Norwegian dairy cooperative Tine has a de facto monopoly on the domestic market and is deliberately sheltered from foreign competition (PDF) as a matter of public policy.

via Pension Pulse: The Norwegian Butter Crisis?.

As I have in the past, I will credit the source for my links.  Please note this link itself links to the original article in Slate from which the quote above originates.

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