Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• 🍽️📉 A record-low 57% of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the federal gov’t to ensure the safety of America’s food supply, per Gallup.
• 💰 18.2% of actively managed investment funds whose primary benchmark is the S&P 500 managed to outperform the index last year, per Morningstar Direct.
• 🇳🇱 Euthanasia accounted for 5.4% of all deaths in the Netherlands last year (9,068 individual cases).
• 🏥 Cosmetic breast-reduction surgeries performed in the US have increased by 64% since 2019, per NY Times editor Stella Bugbee.
• 🔥 Canada's record wildfires last year produced more carbon emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but three major countries (China, the US, and India).