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South Africa's Final Stretch to Democracy

by Rick Lowe South Africa holds its fourth post-apartheid election tomorrow (April 22, 2009). Being an important economy within Africa and to other regions of the world, one should have expected the same media frenzy that charaterised previous elections to be more than ever present, not least because the next... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Obama & Professional Ethics

by Tibor R. Machan President elect Obama told us, during his appointment of several financial regulators, that even while the best regulators are being selected, “everybody from CEOs to shareholders to investors are going have to be asking themselves not only is this profitable, not only whether this will boost... Read more →

Celebrating Earth Day in The Bahamas Too

by Rick Lowe I'm thankful for Earth Day for many of the same reasons Dr. Don Boudreaux outlines in this post over at Cafe Hayek. Read more →

Bahamas National Trust - Feast in the Forest

Looks like this could be a nice event. Click on image to enlarge. Read more →

Nicolette Bethel: On Culture, CARIFESTA, and the Bahamian Economy, Part I

by Rick Lowe Blog mate, Nicolette Bethel over at Blog World, has been on a bit of a tear about things lately. Capitalism seems offensive to her. In this post... she closes by saying: "And so our current “wealth” is almost wholly dependent on the goodwill of the foreign investor,... Read more →

Ideas for Bahamas Government to reduce corruption

by Rick Lowe Dr. Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute has released another video for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Maybe our Government will take a hint or two? Check it out here... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Missing Xmas Commercialism

by Tibor R. Machan Some lessons are learned at great expense and just how healthy Xmas commercialism is seems to be one of them. For decades editorialists, pundits, and other commentators have implored us all to stop all this commercialism during Christmas holidays. The holidays have become too commercial! People... Read more →

The Bahamas is planning to do what?

by Sidney Sweeting, DDS The general consensus in Nassau these days is that Government should remove all traffic lights and make it a free for all at every intersection because it would be better than having flashing lights and not knowing what is showing for the crossing traffic. More and... Read more →

The Canadian Tenors - Song of the week - April 20, 2009 - Because We Believe

by Rick Lowe Just got the CD The Canadian Tenors that some friends told us about them on a recent visit to Nassau. I selected Because We Believe for your listening pleasure below, but there are quite a number of tracks worth listening to. Check out their web site here...... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Government Regulations Again

by Tibor R. Machan A recent New York Times carried an item that's of some general political philosophical interest bearing on the nature of a free society’s system of laws. In particular it relates to the discussion of whether public policy matters ought to be addressed pragmatically--that is, issue by... Read more →