What went right in 2025

[ergophobe]

I think this was a really bad year for American politics, a mediocre year for the American economy, and an exceptional year for America.

In 12 months, you've got
- the largest decline in murder rate ever recorded
- huge declines in traffic fatalities, drug overdoses, and suicide
- first ever personalized gene editing treatment and breakthroughs in HIV and cancer therapy
- continued advances in GLP1 technology that seems to reduce weight and inflammation and a bunch of other stuff
- declines in teen anxiety and despair
- surge in self-driving car technology*
- all this happened in a period when both the SP500 and inflation adjusted median wages hit record highs

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