Your own brief list.
Your own criteria.
Don’t necessarilly go by Index of Economic Freedom reports.
Also, I refer to the word “free-est”, which is hence a relative term, and I do not necessarilly mean only those which can be considered free in absolute terms.
Teh internetz. Where competition has driven costs of most services to zero.
Free mail, free TV, free anything software related.
Also vendors of material goods can easily be compared using metasearches and the googles. i.e. more competition.
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And that will be the next thing the State attacks as “unfair” or “predatory”.
Even the chinese government can’t block you if you go through a web proxy.
Although britain is reviewing legislation that would ban users from the internet if they do anything illegal…
If people grow a pair, there are massive swathes of the earth where no such ridiculous positive laws are being proposed. Leave Britain. Leave America when it becomes so ridiculously tyrannical. Go somewhere else where you can live a life you like, and can influence change in the system or culture.
Liechtenstein is my favourite
http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/Papers/Buchel-11-00/buchel-11-00.shtml
In Europe, Switzerland and Slovakia seem to arguably have the freest economies, with relatively low levels of government spending: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Depense-publique-sur-PIB.png
According to Fraser, the bluer countries are more free economically, and the red ones are less: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/GM_-_Countries_by_Economic_Freedom_Index.png
Similar color scheme used by Heritage: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Index_of_Economic_Freedom_2009.png
This article talks about different countries and freedom in general, economic and otherwise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indices_of_freedom
As for my personal opinion on the freest country in the world (economically), I have heard various things, such as Hong Kong, Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore.
Hong Kong and Singapore.
Doesn’t Ireland have a vast swath of mandatory holidays?
I would say Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Estonia, the United Arab Emirates, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Chile, Nauru, Costa Rica, the Cayman Islands, Panama, Monaco and Sealand, in no particular order.
Switzerland, Lichenstein, Costa Rica, Andorra
They very well could, I never thought about that.
2 weeks paid holiday per year. One of the lowest legally stipulated minimum holidays in the EU
Hong Kong is almost certainly the freest economy in the world. Regardless of what people claim the USA remains one of the freest and its future prospects aren’t as dire as in Europe (although they are undoubtedly bad).
