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Dumbfounded by Mr. Brave Davis in The Bahamas

by Rick Lowe (http:/www.weblogbahamas.com) Sometime back I watched Mr. Davis, MP for Cat Island make his contribution to Parliament on a Bill before the House. He was excellent. No hyperbole and lots of reasoned arguments. Now we fast forward to June 2009 and according to press reports he tells Parliament... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: The Nonsense of "A new world order"

by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) It is only in the last 400 years or so that the classical liberal idea of a relatively free economy has caught on here and there, and even then mainly in the rhetoric of various, sometimes admittedly prominent academic economists, not in the public philosophies... Read more →

JJ Grey & Mofro - Song of the week - June 29, 2009 - Orange Blossoms

by Rick Lowe (http:/www.weblogbahamas.com) Back in December when I posted this blog someone by the name of "fpo" posted a comment to suggest that I might like JJ Grey and Mofro. Well I finally got the CD and he is right. Check out their web site here... And their Myspace... Read more →

Cato's Letter: Jeffrey Miron - In defense of doing nothing

by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) Jeffrey Miron, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and director of undergraduate studies in the department of econmics at Harvard University get's it right. At least from my point of view. "The stimulus was not about improving economic efficiency but about distributing funds to favored interest... Read more →

Going green in The Bahamas?

by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) Enough talk about going green in The Bahamas, I've got a proposal for the Government. Buy $1.5 million of Fluorescent light bulbs from me to distribute to the poor. Then hire me as a consultant, at say $100,000 a year to determine who to give them... Read more →

It's time to save The Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC)

by Garth Buckner (http:/www.weblogbahamas.com) The following piece, first published in The Tribune, Letters, is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author. Once again the news comes out that BEC is failing, that it spends more than it earns, that it is in debt and that it needs bailing... Read more →

The Bahamas and "the middle road between the extremes of capitalism and socialism" - another response to Avid Reader

by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) Thanks to Avid Reader for having written again to suggest there are benefits to "the middle road between the extremes of capitalism and socialism" telling us that he or she seeks that "elusive Utopia where capitalism with a human face resides". One would say both major... Read more →

Lesson's in Freedom: One's Right to be Wrong

by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) In a recent demonstration outside the Earl Warren Bldg in San Francisco someone was waiving around a sign that read: "A moral wrong can't be a civil right." Well, in fact it can! A simple case in point is when someone writes something that is... Read more →

Seeking the middle road between the extremes of capitalism and socialism in The Bahamas

by Rick Lowe ( http://www.weblogbahamas.com ) Avid Reader has responded to my response. Download his or her Letter to The Editor (PDF) here... I'm working on another response. This is fun actually. Read more →

Tough Call aka Larry Smith on "What the Economic Crisis Holds in Store" for The Bahamas and the world

by Rick Lowe ( http://www.weblogbahamas.com ) Tough Call by Larry Smith, is always good. Well researched and readable. Whether I agree with him or not. This week he tries hard to refute Dr. Robert Murphy's take on the US economy at a recent Nassau Institute (video) event. In the end,... Read more →