What do these buildings have in common?

One Beacon Street, Boston

425 Market Street, San Francisco:

11 Times Square, New York:

Along with a lot of other buildings in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and elsewhere, they’re all 47% or so owned by the Norwegian people, in the form of their nation’s sovereign wealth fund.

They own a lot of other stuff, too.  $21 mill worth of Buffalo Wild Wings, for instance.

And 1.5% of Whole Foods:

In a tiny way, every Norwegian helps Marc Maron, because they own about a million bucks worth of Stamps.com.