| While the rest of us are fishing for quarters down the back of the couch, lucky Norway is sitting on a nest egg so massive they dare not spend it lest the country's economy boil over. Thanks to their possession of a shirtload of oil, the country holds the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, worth $750 billion.
The government of Norway can spend just four percent a year (the fund's estimated return) on providing its people with pretty much everything they would ever need and, although things could change under a newly elected government, the rest is carefully unutilized...............................................Full Article: Source
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