Finland - USA 2-0

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.

....

In a separate ranking for business competitiveness, Finland retook the
leading position after dropping to second place behind the United States
last year.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...etitiveness_dc

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:01:57 +0200, noname wrote:

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.

...

In a separate ranking for business competitiveness, Finland retook the
leading position after dropping to second place behind the United States
last year.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...etitiveness_dc

Well, when you have the GDP of Rhode Island, both of your companies can
be competitive.

This is a ridiculous "statistic".

Get a life.

Al Minyard

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police noname
blurted out:

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.


In economic terms "competitive economy" is extremely nebulous, and
some economists would suggest meaningless.

Which nation's economy, per capita GDP (i.e. most productive per
person) is the highest?

Juvat

"Juvat" wrote in message
...
After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police noname
blurted out:

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.


In economic terms "competitive economy" is extremely nebulous, and
some economists would suggest meaningless.

Which nation's economy, per capita GDP (i.e. most productive per
person) is the highest?

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications.../2004rank.html

Luxemburg 1, USA 2 ... Finland 19


Juvat

I had asked:

Which nation's economy, per capita GDP (i.e. most productive per
person) is the highest?

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, William
Wright blurted out:

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications.../2004rank.html

Luxemburg 1, USA 2 ... Finland 19

Touche...now the rest of the world can tremble. Behold, the economic
dynamo that is...Luxemborg!

I think there is a reason it is called the dismal science. Don't like
a statistic? No problem, we'll come up with another metric.

Juvat

"William Wright" wrote in
news:YQzob.56645$ao4.154505@attbi_s51:
"Juvat" wrote in message
...
After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police
noname blurted out:

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by
the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.


In economic terms "competitive economy" is extremely nebulous,
and some economists would suggest meaningless.


Not to set off a braging contest, but WRT the nordic
economies, below are some realworld figures for comparison
to the above.


Which nation's economy, per capita GDP (i.e. most productive
per person) is the highest?

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications...order/2004rank
..
html

Luxemburg 1, USA 2 ... Finland 19


Norway 6..


Of the nordic countries, Norway's GDP is 37% ahead of Finland
and Sweden according to the latest figures from Nordic
Statistical Yearbook 2003.

http://www.dst.dk/dstkt/nord2003/204.PDF


Norway also has the highest net foreign trade result..

http://www.ssb.no/vis/magasinet/norg...rt-2003-10-10-
01.html



Highest net revenues (through the $100 Billion Petroleums
Fund):

http://www.norges-bank.no/english/petroleum_fund/


...and thus no foreign debt:

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications...der/2079rank.h
tml



Norway also has the lowest inflationrate..

http://www.ssb.no/vis/magasinet/norg...rt-2003-10-10-
01.html



..and highes employment rate of the Nordic countries:

http://www.dst.dk/dstkt/nord2003/155.PDF


In other words, per capita the Norwegian economy is, by far,
the strongest of the nordic countries.


Regards...

Bjørnar Bolsøy wrote:


In other words, per capita the Norwegian economy is, by far,
the strongest of the nordic countries.



doesn't mean anything if you are sitting on a pool of oil. Oil mean
you can pump money out of the ground not that the economy is productive

Vince

How many Aircraft carriers in Finland?

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.

Thank God! We will have some help in hauling the world out of
recession.

Pull away, Finland!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.

SNIP:

Do they not also lead the world in suicides?
Walt BJ