Obviously trying to catch some positive attention after being sold for a buck, Newsweek has just released its first ever “Best Countries” index, and coming in at Number One is Finland! They topped the list on education, came in fourth for overall quality of life, fifth on political environment, eighth on economic dynamism, and seventeenth for health. No doubt all that free high-speed broadband doesn’t hurt, either. I wonder if the recent disaster at the World Sauna Championship dinged their health score.
The U.S., by contrast, finished eleventh overall, only beating out Finland on “Economic Dynamism”, where we finished second. Singapore won that category, but finished 20th overall due to the repressive political climate there.
