Where do you invest your money?

Are you serious? Finland and Sweden are practically barren wastelands with almost zero natural resources. Resource extraction only accounted for 0.4% of Finnish GDP and 1.2% for Sweden. The global average is around 5-6%.

Actual resource rich places are countries like Norway(10%), Russia(20%), Australia(13%), and of course the petrostates such as Saudi Arabia(30%). However, only the Soviet Republics and the Gulf States have low debt, Norway/AU/CA all have rather high debt.

Nearly everything Finland and Sweden export are manufactured goods. Even the refined petro products they export comes from imported crude oil. Or are you claiming Finnish hunters gather from the vast herds of cargo ships roaming the tundra and Swedish miners dig up Volvos and medications and sell these ancient wonders to the rest of the world?

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