Derek Thompson on 2025

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

Here is the link, a good record for tech most of all.  Except perhaps on the politics.