The 100 Greatest Things about America 2021 – Yahoo Finance

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Were back and better than ever!

Yes, Im talking about America post (sort of) COVID-19, but also Yahoo Finances 100 Greatest Things about America list. Of course many of us have had a rough time of it this past year. What better reason then to celebrate the good things about our country. So before you mix up the G&Ts (and/or the margs) and fire up the grill (and/or the fireworks), please check out our latest list.

First a few notes. This project has been done for seven years running, (I started it in 2010 when I was the editor of Fortune, and skipped a few years), which means we now have 700 greatest things about America and we could easily find 700 more. For the record, pretty much anything can be on the list national parks, TV shows, favorite foods subject to just one rule. People can be included, of course, but only the living. Ditto for dogs and cats. (Sorry Rin Tin Tin and Socks see No. 39.)

Note that a few people from previous lists have passed away over the years. Also, picks from older lists may have not aged well, as they say, but we arent going to edit previous years lists, except this year in one instance. I discovered that Edward R. Murrow (I Can Hear It Now) somehow made the first list in 2010, (No. 55), a violation of our guidelines, since he died in 1965. While I have the greatest respect for the legendary CBS newsman, (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, fyi), I am going to remove him and replace him with John Sidney McCain III, who passed away in 2018, (but of course was alive in 2010.)

With so many names its fun to search for great things you might think should be on the list (hit command F on a Mac.) You will see we added our third Taylor this year (Ham, No. 23), which joins Chuck Taylor No. 89 in 2013 and James Taylor, No. 49 in 2011. (Stand ready for 2022 Taylor Made!) We also added two doctors this year (Fauci No. 1 and Pepper No. 2) to join one on the 2012 list (Seuss No. 80.) And we now have three peanuts, the cartoon this year at No. 68, peanut butter at No. 56 in 2012 and just the plain old nut (er, legume) No. 30 in 2014. In other words you can have all kinds of fun with the list, which we very much encourage you to do.

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So Happy Fourth of July everyone! And please enjoyin no particular orderYahoo Finances 100 Greatest Things about America 2021!

1. U.S. COVID-19 vaccines: Moderna, J&J, (and 50%) Pfizer

2. Dr. Anthony Fauci

3. Dr. Pepper

4. Statue of Liberty

5. The new space race: Bezos v. Musk

6. Simone Biles

7. Rice Krispies treats

8. Juneteenth an official federal holiday

9. Capitol Police officers

10. Free Britney movement

11. Ted Lasso

12. Rita Moreno

13. Elastic waistband dress pants

14. Stimulus checks

15. LGBT Pride Month

16. Grilled cheese

17. BLTs

18. Competitive eating

19. WWE SummerSlam

20. Muscle cars going electric

21. Ford all-electric F-150

22. New Jersey

23. Taylor Ham / Pork Roll

24. A free press

25. Ketchup

26. Paul Simon

27. Olivia Rodrigo

28. Meme stocks

29. Roaring Kitty

30. Meghan Markle

31. Emmanuel Acho

32. Big Tech (For better and worse)

33. NASAs Perseverance Rover

34. HBOMaxs simultaneous movie/streaming release strategy

35. "Mare of Easttown"

36. Jean Smart

37. Podcasts

38. Zoom Cat

39. First pets (pets owned by U.S. presidents)

40. Reality TV shows

41. The 8-hour shh sound to put babies to sleep on YouTube

42. Deeply discounted hand sanitizer

43. Full aisles of toilet paper

44. American Girl dolls

45. Whoopie Pies

46. Pop Rocks

47. Diet orange soda

48. Snow Cones with ice cream

49. College GameDay

50. Cherry blossoms by the Jefferson Memorial

51. Phil Mickelson

52. Dionne Warwick

53. Burt Bacharach

54. The Affordable Care Act

55. Stacey Abrams

56. Mitt Romney

57. Dairy Queen

58. I voted stickers

59. Boardwalks

60. Go-karts

61. Two oceans

62. Two Utah political opponents saying they respect each other

63. Wawa vs. Sheetz

64. "The Facts of Life" / "Diffrent Strokes" / "Family Ties"

65. "Little House on the Prairie"

66. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

67. Marilynne Robinson

68. Peanuts cartoons

69. Bill Hader

70. Mountain bikes

71. Cher

72. The re-opened local coffee shop not named Starbucks

73. Mazie Hirono

74. Netflix giving shows like "The Flash" an afterlife

75. Crazy Horse Memorial

76. Peaceful transitions of power

77. The battle-scarred song: Im Proud to be an American

78. I Wont Back Down by Tom Petty

79. Fight the Power by Public Enemy

80. The Onion

81. Fuddruckers

82. Billie Eilish

83. Tom Ford

84. Harrison Ford

85. Concert T-shirts

86. Red Rocks Amphitheatre

87. Empire State Building

88. Gluten-free foods

89. REM

90. Nick Saban

91. Chez Panisse

92. Charlie Munger

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