A closer look
Norway manages the largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet, possessing well over one trillion dollars in international assets simply because they decided to aggressively invest their massive North Sea oil profits instead of recklessly spending them. By mandated law, the Norwegian government is only allowed to spend the annual financial returns generated by the fund, ensuring that future unborn generations will continue to quietly benefit from the massive petroleum extraction of the twentieth century. This incredibly mature display of macroeconomic foresight is heavily studied by jealous foreign politicians who routinely blow their own national budgets on bloated military contracts and corporate tax cuts. It is intensely frustrating to realize that a country famous for freezing temperatures and salted fish also completely mastered the concept of generational financial literacy
