INTERESTING TO NOTE...:

Economic freedom (The Economist, 9/17/09)

Hong Kong tops an annual index from the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank, which ranks 141 countries according to the degree to which their policies support economic freedom. Countries that promote trade (both internal and external), free competition and strong legal protection for private property score well. America comes sixth in the survey, just behind Chile but ahead of the big continental European countries.

...how enormous was the impact of September 11, 1973 and how minimal that of September 11, 2001. Our maintenance of such a high level of freedom while waging a global war is almost as impressive as Chile's defiance of Third World pathologies under the leadership of Pinochet and his heirs.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 17, 2009 1:03 PM