Earlier this year I noted the Heritage Foundation's release of its 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, in which Canada has surpassed the U.S. Looking it over today, however, I noticed two items perhaps worth highlighting:
* Two years ago, with an 80.6 rating, the U.S. was rated as an economically "free" country. We have now slipped into the "mostly free" category.* English is either the official language, or one of the most widely spoken languages, in all of the top 5 countries and 8 of the top 11. This lends itself to some interesting hypothesizing about culture and economics.
