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What creates prosperity?

Rick Lowe Watch the following video and find about this strange phenomenon called economic growth/the creation of wealth. Read more →

New Straw Market will be a test for The Bahamas Government!

by Jerome Pinder The new Straw Market is nearing completion and it certainly is an attractive building for the landscape of Down Town, Nassau. However, it is a frightening possibility that the products now sold under the tent may be displayed for sale in the new building paid for by... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Ayn Rand & Libertarians Grossly Misunderstood

Tibor R. Machan In my local paper a letter writer, apparently eager to besmirch Ayn Rand--which many have tried in vain--had this to say: “Rand’s libertarianism has an underlying philosophy that says that if you are not particularly smart, ambitious, disciplined or wealthy, and you become homeless, hungry, financially ruined... Read more →

Doctors hand out fake excuse notes

Rick Lowe And you thought this only happened in The Bahamas didn't you. Watch more MacIver Institute videos on You Tube here… Read more →

We don't need Public Education: Sheldon Richman on Reason.tv

Rick Lowe I firmly believe the public educational system should be privatized. Dr. Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman, the flagship publication of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is interviewed for Reason.TV and has some most intriguing insights. Hope you enjoy the video below. Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Pitfalls of Shared Responsibility

Tibor R. Machan President Barrack Obama asserted in a recent speech dealing with the country’s enormous debt that what the country needs is to live by an ancient principle, namely, “the principle of shared responsibility.” He invoked this in his defense of his championing of the increased extortion of the... Read more →

Quote: Society's producers already bear a large burden

they are… "a group that includes taxi-drivers, shop-keepers, workers in private enterprise, entrepreneurs small and large, capitalists, savers…..the people who rely on voluntary cooperation with others on markets, the people who pay for themselves and their families – and who are forced to also pay for the state. They have... Read more →

History provides ample evidence of limited government that works

Rick Lowe Government, as we know, has a tendency to expand until the burden of taxation becomes unbearable for citizens and sometimes there are citizen revolts, like the Boston Tea Party in the US in 1773 for example. The Boston Tea Party was primarily a result of citizens of the... Read more →

Carlyle Bethel and his ‘merry band’ known as the Q.C. 5000 feed the less fortunate

Rick Lowe This article... by Shavaughn Moss, Lifestyles Editor at The Nassau Guardian is a prefect example of how society can deal with its problems without the heavy hand of government. Congratulations to Carlyle Bethel and his friends at Queen's College! Thank you Mr. Bethel for starting a very worthy... Read more →

John Lennon - Song of the week - April 25, 2011 - Nobody Told Me

Rick Lowe According to JohnLennon.com: "If John Lennon had only been one of the four members of the Beatles, his artistic immortality would already have been assured. The so-called “smart Beatle,” he brought a penetrating intelligence and a stinging wit both to the band’s music and its self-presentation. But in... Read more →