Ranked: The Countries With the Most Uranium ⛏️
From @VCElements—bridging the gap between global trends shaping our future, and the raw materials powering them ⚡️
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Nearly $27,000 a year for family health insurance premiums, up from $6,000 in 1999.
And that’s before deductibles, copays, and surprise bills.
The system is fundamentally broken.
Switzerland built the world's most prosperous society by doing exactly what every government expert told them not to do: staying neutral, keeping taxes low, and letting markets work.
While the EU suffocates its members with 170,000 pages of regulations, Switzerland maintains bilateral trade agreements that preserve sovereignty. Swiss GDP per capita hits $94,000 versus Germany's $51,000 and France's $45,000. The Swiss franc remains one of the world's strongest currencies because the Swiss National Bank can't print money to fund Brussels bureaucrats. Meanwhile, EU nations surrender monetary policy to unelected technocrats who inflate away savings to finance welfare states.
The regulatory contrast is staggering. Switzerland ranks 4th globally in economic freedom while EU heavyweights like Germany (16th) and France (64th) plummet under Brussels' command-and-control apparatus. Swiss unemployment sits at 2.1% compared to the eurozone's 6.4%. Swiss labor markets remain flexible while EU employment laws make hiring workers feel like adopting teenagers forever.
Brussels promises prosperity through harmonization, but delivers stagnation through standardization. Every EU directive removes another price signal from the market, replacing voluntary exchange with political allocation. Swiss neutrality isn't just about avoiding wars (though that 200-year peace dividend helps). Economic neutrality means staying out of supranational central planning schemes that turn dynamic economies into managed decline.
The EU's answer to Switzerland's success? Punitive measures and threats to cut off market access unless the Swiss submit to Brussels rule. Nothing exposes the coercive nature of the European project quite like watching bureaucrats demand that free people abandon the policies that made them rich.
Dementia risk down by two-thirds over past 40 years
In 1984, nearly 1 in 3 people in their late 80s had dementia
By 2024, it’s down to just 1 in 10
Data for US, but similar in Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, and France
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In the 1950s, a man predicted the smartphone almost word for word.
He was laughed at.
Every generation has people who imagine what others can't yet see.
They get mocked first and credited later.
The question is never whether the idea is crazy. It's whether you're early or wrong.
For all you socialist interventionists out there:
"The problem is not that planners are ignorant, but that they cannot know what they need to know."
Friedrich August von Hayek
Days after saying ‘it’s a good thing’ for Mark Carney to sign a trade deal with China, Trump vows a 100% tariff on Canada for doing so https://t.co/kodxysMN6A
@MishGEA Since when is it the Supremes job to "fix" anything? Just rule on the constitutionality of these idiotic tariffs and let the bonehead bureaucrats deal with refunding the stolen money.