{"id":11748,"date":"2009-09-08T06:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2009-09-08T06:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T10:18:43","slug":"swiss-topple-us-as-most-competitive-economy-wef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/swiss-topple-us-as-most-competitive-economy-wef.html","title":{"rendered":"Swiss topple U.S. as most competitive economy: WEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Switzerland  knocked the United States off the position as the world&#8217;s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system left it more exposed to some long-standing weaknesses, a report said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The World Economic Forum&#8217;s global competitiveness report 2009\/2010 showed economies with a large focus on financial services such as the U.S., <span id=\"lw_1252393948_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Britain<\/span> or Iceland were the losers of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. as the world&#8217;s largest economy lost last year&#8217;s strong lead, slipping to number two for the first time since the introduction of the index in its current form in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090908\/bs_nm\/us_competitiveness_report\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world&#8217;s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system left it more exposed to some long-standing weaknesses, a report said on Tuesday. The World Economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4602,894,6576],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-economy","tag-financial-services","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11749,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions\/11749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}