In just a few years, the U.S. has fallen from No. 3 in 2000 (behind the city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore) to No. 8 in 2005 and now has plummeted to 18th place, trailing such countries as Estonia, Taiwan, and Qatar.Finland, Denmark and Canada now also have freer economies than the United States.Americans will ignore this report at their peril; this is not something thrown together by ivory to