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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

Finland is Number One!

By Derek Thompson
Aug 19 2010, 1:25 PM ET Comment

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Some countries just have it all. Finland is not only ranked first in Newsweek's Best Countries in the World report, but also it is the first country in the developed world to officially double dip into a second recession. Double threat!

I would suggest these facts contradict each other, but such a statement would imply that a mainstream newsweekly's methodology for ranking complex institutions for the purpose of driving newsstand sales is potentially fallible, which is obviously a ridiculous thing to suggest.




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