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Crisis at the Postal Service

Rick Lowe "The post office is on the verge of bankruptcy and may have to shut down, unless Congress permits cost-cutting measures. From The Week posted on September 8, 2011. "The postmaster general warned this week that the U.S. Postal Service was on the “brink of default,” and would shut... Read more →

The Green Thing

Rick Lowe A friend sent the following story along about the green movement. It's brilliant. Obviously few us would want to go back to those days but it's good food for thought. At least I wouldn't and I thank my lucky stars daily I was born in the 1950's. Future... Read more →

I'm from the government…

Rick Lowe From Powerline.com with a hat tip to Professor Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek. Read more →

MP changes story?

The Opposition MP for Fox Hill has apparently changed his story from saving City Markets through government "intervention" to saying he means the workers rights "ought to be protected". It was stated in the press that the MP "renewed his call for intervention to save the beleaguered City Markets food... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Liberty: Both Radical & Traditional

Tibor R. Machan At times libertarian or classical liberal--or, in yet other words, pure laissez faire capitalist--ideas are dismissed as part of a misguided modernity that’s lacking proper pedigree. But this is all wrong. Already back in circa 600 B.C.E. the Chinese sage Lao Tzu had weighed in with libertarian... Read more →

More on Crime on New Providence

Rick Lowe Lots of ink has been expended on calling on the political leadership to do something about the high incidents of murder, but it begs the question; where have our community leaders gone? Shouldn't the community leaders be calling on the Police and neighbours to get together to at... Read more →

"Unfair" Competition on Abaco?

Jack Albury First published in The Tribune, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 and posted here with the kind permission of the author. As your readers are well aware Bahamas-wide, yea even worldwide businesses are struggling to survive and in Abaco there is no difference. For several years now a local trucking... Read more →

Pension Regulation or crony capitalism?

Rick Lowe Apparently there is a Government Pensions Taskforce that has presented some "notes for draft legislation" to the powers that be. Of course reference is made to City Markets pension where "no payments have been made into the plan since 2007" on behalf of the associates as reasons to... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Liberty versus Stimulus

Tibor R. Machan Despite all the bad blood and heated rhetoric--name calling, besmirching, hyperbole and other polemics--involved in our current political-economic controversies, there really is a substantive point of considerable difference at issue. Put bluntly, the Obama team is convinced that unless people get a push from the state, or... Read more →

Nassau Institute releases the 2011 issue of the Economic Freedom of The World Report

Rick Lowe There's some good news and some bad news. Read it here… Download your copy of the report (pdf) here… Read more →