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Ten countries have now become more prosperous than the United States.
The U.S. is ranked No. 11 in the latest annual Prosperity Index, which was released this week by the Legatum Institute, an international think tank based in London. The index ranks 142 countries overall and in eight categories: The economy Entrepreneurship and opportunity Governance Education Health Safety and security Personal freedom Social capital The Legatum Institute states that its index is unique in that it’s based on both income and well-being: Prosperity is more than just the accumulation of material wealth, it is also the joy of everyday life and the prospect of an even better life in the future. Norway came in No. 1 overall for the seventh consecutive year. According to a Legatum press news release: Norway comes out on top due the freedom it offers its citizens, the quality of its healthcare system and social bonds between its people. The Scandinavian country had its highest ranking in the social capital category (No. 2), with 94 percent of people saying they can rely on friends and family in times of need. It had its lowest rankings in the safety and security category (No. 8) and the governance category (No. 8). Overall, the United States fell one spot this year. Its highest ranking was in the health category (No. 1) and its lowest ranking was in the safety and security category (No. 33). Nathan Gamester, director of the Prosperity Index at the Legatum Institute, states in the news release: “The Prosperity Index tells us that human progress goes beyond economics. Norway and other countries at the top of the Index provide opportunity and freedom to their citizens, access to quality healthcare and education, and provide safe environments for people to flourish in. “By contrast, those countries or regions of the world where people feel unsafe, where they are forced to flee from their homes, and where the education and healthcare systems are failing do not provide prosperity to their citizens.” The countries that made the top 10 based on their overall scores this year are: Norway Switzerland Denmark New Zealand Sweden Canada Australia Netherlands Finland Ireland What do you make of 10 countries now outranking the U.S. on the Prosperity Index? Sound off in our Forums. It’s the place where you can speak your mind, explore topics in-depth, and post questions and get answers. This article was originally published on MoneyTalksNews.com as 'U.S. Is No Longer Among the 10 Most Prosperous Countries'. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-no-longer-among-10-203045054.html thanks, obarry... 
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Ten countries have now become more prosperous than the United States. The U.S. is ranked No. 11 in the latest annual Prosperity Index, which was released this week by the Legatum Institute, an international think tank based in London. The index ranks 142 countries overall and in eight categories: The economy Entrepreneurship and opportunity Governance Education Health Safety and security Personal freedom Social capital The Legatum Institute states that its index is unique in that it’s based on both income and well-being: Prosperity is more than just the accumulation of material wealth, it is also the joy of everyday life and the prospect of an even better life in the future. Norway came in No. 1 overall for the seventh consecutive year. According to a Legatum press news release: Norway comes out on top due the freedom it offers its citizens, the quality of its healthcare system and social bonds between its people. The Scandinavian country had its highest ranking in the social capital category (No. 2), with 94 percent of people saying they can rely on friends and family in times of need. It had its lowest rankings in the safety and security category (No. 8) and the governance category (No. 8). Overall, the United States fell one spot this year. Its highest ranking was in the health category (No. 1) and its lowest ranking was in the safety and security category (No. 33). Nathan Gamester, director of the Prosperity Index at the Legatum Institute, states in the news release: “The Prosperity Index tells us that human progress goes beyond economics. Norway and other countries at the top of the Index provide opportunity and freedom to their citizens, access to quality healthcare and education, and provide safe environments for people to flourish in. “By contrast, those countries or regions of the world where people feel unsafe, where they are forced to flee from their homes, and where the education and healthcare systems are failing do not provide prosperity to their citizens.” The countries that made the top 10 based on their overall scores this year are: Norway Switzerland Denmark New Zealand Sweden Canada Australia Netherlands Finland Ireland What do you make of 10 countries now outranking the U.S. on the Prosperity Index? Sound off in our Forums. It’s the place where you can speak your mind, explore topics in-depth, and post questions and get answers. This article was originally published on MoneyTalksNews.com as 'U.S. Is No Longer Among the 10 Most Prosperous Countries'. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-no-longer-among-10-203045054.html thanks, obarry... It's fine with me. Those countries are the ones muslims are taking over. Their rankings should improve under Sharia Law. I would think. |
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It's fine with me. Those countries are the ones muslims are taking over. Their rankings should improve under Sharia Law. I would think. pretty sad to watch other countries fall for us to rise in rankings instead of us fixing our problems... |
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Obonzo, is preparing for his photo op, in front of the "mission complete" banner, as we type.
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Nigeria Jamaica and Kazakhstan are the new super powers. That lottery is dynamite.
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Nigeria Jamaica and Kazakhstan are the new super powers. That lottery is dynamite. lol... |
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Obonzo, is preparing for his photo op, in front of the "mission complete" banner, as we type. i'm sure he's smiling at this... |
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Obonzo, is preparing for his photo op, in front of the "mission complete" banner, as we type. i'm sure he's smiling at this... Nah, that was 43. |
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sorry sassy, i didn't see you already posted something similar...
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Funny they didn't include energy production in those rankings. That may tilt the scale, off the table for most of these countries.
Say, where's Mexico? Are they included under the U.S.? |
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Edited by
mightymoe
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Sat 11/07/15 07:36 PM
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Funny they didn't include energy production in those rankings. That may tilt the scale, off the table for most of these countries. Say, where's Mexico? Are they included under the U.S.? sassy post shows the top 25... so i'm guessing Mexico is around 122 |
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Obonzo, is preparing for his photo op, in front of the "mission complete" banner, as we type. i'm sure he's smiling at this... Nah, that was 43. 'That', was a U.S. Naval vessel, whose "mission" was indeed, "complete". |
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the latest annual Prosperity Index, I always hated indexes and rankings comparing countries. I mean Norway came in No. 1 overall for the seventh consecutive year. Norway has a population of 5 million people. And they're being compared to countries like the U.S. or China. 5,000,000 320,000,000 1,350,000,000 The population of Norway is almost equal to Phoenix, AZ. Colorado and Alabama have more similar population sizes than Norway to the U.S. Would you say those 2 states are extremely different in terms of industry, population makeup, ideologies? Have you ever read a residential real estate appraisal? Where they use the sales comparison approach? They list a few properties and then manipulate the value of the differences to come to a general equal value in order to make it all equal? To me these ranking indexes is comparing mansions to mobile homes to houses sold 3 years prior. You need to make so many adjustments and ignore so many relevant factors it just becomes silly and meaningless. The majority of the countries in the top ten have populations around 5 million people. None of them have more than 40 or 50 million people. Might as well compare education and find kindergartners in classes of 10 kids with teachers having direct hands on interaction have a happier and more functional education than the college basic 101 lecture class with 700 students and start saying Harvard education is slipping in the ranks. And that doesn't even take into account what the people publishing these metrics love to do; constantly change how they measure and come up with their findings. Just like how unemployment measuring is changed, or a change in seasonal adjustments, and we magically have 5% unemployment while 100 million people are out of the labor force. So What do you make of 10 countries now outranking the U.S. on the Prosperity Index? What I make out of it is the only people that are going to find meaning in the prosperity index are people that don't want to put any thought into anything. |
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Edited by
SassyEuro2
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Sun 11/08/15 05:57 AM
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sorry sassy, i didn't see you already posted something similar... No worries. We were just thinking alike. And I just found this... 2015 Legatum Prosperity Index™ http://www.li.com/activities/publications/2015-legatum-prosperity-index/ Edit... 4 links & only 2 are still active. Strange..  Topic: Legatum Institute- Top 25 Countries Legatum Institute Prosperity Index 2015: The Top Countries - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/legatum-institute-prosperity-index-top-countries-2015-10?r=UK&IR=T/ Related thread http://m.mingle2.com/topic/show/452768/ |
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I notice that none of those other countries are hard line "free market capitalist" basis nations. Nor are they hard line communist (though I don't think there are any such nations left).
My own take is, that as long as the leadership in this country keeps insisting that half of their own people are ENEMIES, things aren't going to improve. Too many proposed "solutions" consist of angrily denouncing some segment of our own population, and declaring that they aren't "real Americans," and should have their concerns and problems be ignored. |
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Edited by
Conrad_73
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Sun 11/08/15 06:57 AM
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I notice that none of those other countries are hard line "free market capitalist" basis nations. neither is the US! |
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I notice that none of those other countries are hard line "free market capitalist" basis nations. neither is the US! Yes. And from a basic logical trouble-shooting approach, these facts would indicate that "free market capitalism" or the lack of it, has nothing to do with the problems. |
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I notice that none of those other countries are hard line "free market capitalist" basis nations. neither is the US! Yes. And from a basic logical trouble-shooting approach, these facts would indicate that "free market capitalism" or the lack of it, has nothing to do with the problems. seems to me the problems here is just bad government.. not just obarry, but everyone involved |
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ems to me the problems here is just bad government.. not just obarry, but everyone involved
 Americans, STOPPED thinking like Americans/ like Nationalists ...which made us great. And began to think like globalists, which destroyed us from the inside out. |
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I notice that none of those other countries are hard line "free market capitalist" basis nations. neither is the US! Yes. And from a basic logical trouble-shooting approach, these facts would indicate that "free market capitalism" or the lack of it, has nothing to do with the problems. you might want to look at that again! 
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