is close buy, cost a ton of money and we drank some in south korea on the other side of the world and they were cheaper there than they are in sweden, and the big welfare state has dragged on sweden's growth, not as wealthy relative to the rest of the world but they are prosperous place because they are mostly capitalist. venezuela the other end of the spectrum. venezuela is dead last in bob's economic freedom index, cuba and north korea are not ranked but we can guess where they'd be. venezuela is important to remember, this is not a place that was always like that, the earliest year of index in 1970's, what we saw was long period of decline in economic freedom in venezuela, move get away from capitalism into worse and worse form of interventionism, stagnated, back in 1970 when they were capitalists they were also wealthy, wealthier per capita incomes than spain itself, that's not true by 1998 when chÁvez comes to power, but this was a capitalist prosperous economy and also you don't have to go far very far to pointing successful democratic socialism, chÁvez unlike the other ones came to power in democratic election that internati