{"id":361,"date":"2015-09-22T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/09\/22\/lack-of-eminent-domain-restrictions-causes-us-to-fall-to-16-in-world-economic-freedom-ranking\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:50:00","slug":"lack-of-eminent-domain-restrictions-causes-us-to-fall-to-16-in-world-economic-freedom-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/lack-of-eminent-domain-restrictions-causes-us-to-fall-to-16-in-world-economic-freedom-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Eminent Domain Restrictions Causes US to fall to #16 in World Economic Freedom Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s this ranking about?<\/strong>\u00a0The Fraser Institute ranks countries on their economic freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ranking is the U.S.?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a016th<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which counties beat the U.S.? \u00a0<\/strong>Hong Kong and Singapore lead the pack and are joined by\u00a0New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, Jordan, Ireland, Canada, and the United Kingdom\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why has the U.S. fallen in rankings? <\/strong>overregulation, civil asset forfeiture, eminent domain, and other factors have combined to make the country much less business-friendly, according to Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/economic-freedom-of-the-world-2015.pdf\">Fraser Institute 2015 Annual Report on Economic Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krmg.com\/news\/news\/local\/osu-professor-us-sliding-badly-terms-economic-free\/nnksB\/\">KRMG:<\/a> OSU Professor: US sliding badly in terms of economic freedom\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s this ranking about?<\/strong>\u00a0The Fraser Institute ranks countries on their economic freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ranking is the U.S.?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a016th<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which counties beat the U.S.? \u00a0<\/strong>Hong Kong and Singapore lead the pack and are joined by\u00a0New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, Jordan, Ireland, Canada, and the United Kingdom\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why has the U.S. fallen in rankings? <\/strong>overregulation, civil asset forfeiture, eminent domain, and other factors have combined to make the country much less&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-economic-development","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}