Masters of $1 Trillion Fund Reap Rewards of a Very Good Idea

The Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea west of Stavanger, Norway.

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In one of the world’s richest countries, the finance minister may soon need to break the spending record he just set.

For Jan Tore Sanner, the 55-year-old who’s been running Norway’s finances since January, that’s not really a problem thanks to a couple of choices his country made a while back.