{"id":23761,"date":"2014-01-14T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2014-01-14T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:51:25","slug":"2014-economic-freedom-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/2014-economic-freedom-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Economic Freedom Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Foundation has posted their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/ranking\" target=\"_blank\">2014 economic freedom rankings<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a slideshow of the top ten countries by Heritage&#8217;s ranking formula:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src='http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/embed\/topten\/2014' scrolling='no' height='310' width='560' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/unitedstates\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> missed the top ten, coming in at #12. Canada ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/canada\" target=\"_blank\">number six<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada\u2019s economic freedom score is 80.2, making its economy the 6th freest in the 2014 Index. Its overall score is 0.8 point better than last year, reflecting improvements in investment freedom, the management of government spending, and monetary freedom. Canada continues to be the freest economy in the North America region.<\/p>\n<p>Over the 20-year history of the Index, Canada has advanced its economic freedom score by 10.7 points, the third biggest improvement among developed economies. Substantial score increases in seven of the 10 economic freedoms, including investment freedom, fiscal freedom, and the management of public spending, have enabled Canada to elevate its economic freedom status from \u201cmoderately free\u201d 20 years ago to \u201cfree\u201d today.<\/p>\n<p>A transparent and stable business climate makes Canada one of the world\u2019s most attractive investment destinations. Openness to global trade and commerce is firmly institutionalized, and the economy has rebounded relatively quickly from the global recession. The financial system has remained stable, and prudent regulations have allowed banks to withstand the global financial turmoil with little disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Foundation has posted their 2014 economic freedom rankings. Here&#8217;s a slideshow of the top ten countries by Heritage&#8217;s ranking formula: The United States missed the top ten, coming in at #12. Canada ranked number six: Canada\u2019s economic freedom score is 80.2, making its economy the 6th freest in the 2014 Index. Its overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,10],"tags":[697,571,563],"class_list":["post-23761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-budget","tag-investment","tag-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23764,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions\/23764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}