Top ten - bottom ten countries according to trade freedom

[Madison320]

According to heritage economic freedom index

Most free trade:

Singapore
New Zealand
Australia
Mauritius
Bahrain
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Taiwan
Georgia
Seychelles

Least free trade:

Zimbabwe
Djibouti
Republic of Congo
The Bahamas
Equatorial Guinea
Chad
Venezuela
Barbados
Sudan
North Korea

 

[PAF]

Gee, the U.S. isn't even in the top ten.

Where are we are Education? You know, the people who end up voting?

Never mind, no need to answer.

 

[Snowball]

Madison, free trade is less than 10% of the methodology in that index.

It is just one of a number of criteria inside the Open Markets subset which is respecively in total only 20% of the weight in the methodology.

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[Madison320]

Madison, free trade is less than 10% of the methodology in that index.

It is just one of a number of criteria inside the Open Markets subset which is respecively in total only 20% of the weight in the methodology.

Index of Economic Freedom: About the Index | The Heritage Foundation

Explore the Index of Economic Freedom to gauge global impacts of liberty and free markets. Discover the powerful link between economic freedom and progress. The 31st edition, once again, illustrates key factors shaping our world's landscape. From @Heritage

www.heritage.org

I downloaded the file and sorted on free trade.

 

[TheTexan]

Free trade benefits the poorest countries the most.

For the richest countries, free trade is usually just harmful.

But if you're in North Korea's position, yea, it's pretty stupid to be against free trade.

 

[familydog]

Every single one of those countries listed in the top ten are dying with below replacement fertility.

Only three in the bottom ten are below.

Coincidence? You decide.

 

[idiom]

You can't import sugar. You have business licenses and capital gains taxes and other weird anti-capital shit.

 

[Madison320]

Every single one of those countries listed in the top ten are dying with below replacement fertility.

Only three in the bottom ten are below.

Coincidence? You decide.

Lack of tariffs causes a drop in the fertility rate? You learn something new everyday.

Meanwhile people are risking death to escape from bottom ten to move to the top ten.

 

[Snowball]

Every single one of those countries listed in the top ten are dying with below replacement fertility.

Only three in the bottom ten are below.

Coincidence? You decide.

Think about who makes it sound like such a crisis if population goes down - only those who want to rule you, take you to war, or sell you shit.
Economists, politicians, generals. F them.

The world pop has risen 250% in my life thus far. What is so bad about a few less people? Especially considering the way we live today.

Earth only so big.

 

[familydog]

Lack of tariffs causes a drop in the fertility rate? You learn something new everyday.

Meanwhile people are risking death to escape from bottom ten to move to the top ten.

Free trade and consumerism go hand in hand. One typically leads to the other.

Consumerism directly leads to lower birth rates, as it displaces family, tradition and heritage as the primary values.

 

[familydog]

Think about who makes it sound like such a crisis if population goes down - only those who want to rule you, take you to war, or sell you shit.
Economists, politicians, generals. F them.

The world pop has risen 250% in my life thus far. What is so bad about a few less people? Especially considering the way we live today.

Earth only so big.

I mean, if you don't live for anything outside of yourself, you need a population to protect what you value. The people who want to hurt you and take your stuff are out there building an army to do it, all while you're building an army of consumerist plastic garbage.

 

[idiom]

I mean, if you don't live for anything outside of yourself, you need a population to protect what you value. The people who want to hurt you and take your stuff are out there building an army to do it, all while you're building an army of consumerist plastic garbage.

What is with the victim mentality? Nobody is stopping you from breeding. There are plenty of immigrants if we stopped deporting them.