Fareed Zakarias Restoring the American Dream examines where America stands to today in the world, and how the country slipped from its number one ranking in all things
Fareed Zakaria’s Restoring the American
Fareed Zakaria’s Restoring the American Dream examines where America stands to today in the world, and how the country slipped from its number one ranking in all things, and how it can be fixed and restored to the number one spot. America is considered indisputably number one by some key measures. America has the world's largest economy, military, scientific establishment, and the biggest technology companies. At the same time America is just as indisputably falling behind in many other key areas, America is falling behind other countries. In recent rankings. The United States is the fourth most competitive country in the world economically, and the fifth best country in which to run a business. Fareed also brings up the factor that America's enrollment rate for elementary school, ranks 79th in the world, and how only 12% of Americans graduates graduate college. America's 15-year-olds are ranked 19th in science and 24th in math; and how U.S. infrastructure ranks 23rd, and 41st in the world on infant mortality, 49th on life expectancy. The United States come in behind countries Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, and Canada. In the U.S. over the last 25 years, the growth rate per person has not been the strongest. Although there are still places where the America is still number one. America is still number one in the number of guns the country own far exceeds any other country. The United States account for 50 percent of the world's annual production of weapons. The United States is also number one in terms of the total debt to other countries. Fareed along with guest; Hans Rosling of Gapminder.org, Niall Ferguson, Professor at Harvard University, Joseph Nye, Professor at Harvard University, Dambisa Moyo, International Economist, Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, and Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder, Foursquare discuss why is it that America seems less dominant in so many areas and why the United States is falling behind in other countries.