[Clive]

The title of the article was abridged in my posting because it exceeded the limit set by Free Republic.

Please refer to the hyperlinked article the full title and for a hyperlink to the report mentioned in the article.

[Clive]

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[Jack Hammer]

No surprise. These days, Russia and China are more economically free than the United States. And Cuba and Vietnam are gaining on us.

[Slings and Arrows]

Hard to believe that North Korea isn’t in the bottom five.

[allmost]

How is the ranking made? What criteria are considered? I ask because the US currently is considered roughly equal with Malaysia last year.

[Still Thinking]

Canada ranks sixth in the world for economic freedom with score of 7.81 while the United States fell to 10th overall with a score of 7.60, according to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2011 Annual Report. But Canada’s score actually decreased this year from 7.95 in 2010, part of an overall decline in levels of economic freedom around the globe. This year’s report shows that the average economic freedom score worldwide fell to 6.64 in 2009 (the most recent year for which data are available) from 6.67 in 2008.

That's what I suspected when I read the first paragraph where it said they "surpassed" us in economic freedom. I figured that it was more a case of us surpassing THEM by going the WRONG way more effectively.

[Lancey Howard]

Of course, Canada is horrendous when it comes to freedom of speech and guns.