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A hollow ring to some of the campaigning

Edward Hutcheson Voters will never know what the new political candidate is offering until they get those candidates to sit down and talk to them, but, many of the candidates are not prepared to talk, or have nothing to say unless that “talk” takes a particular line. The ability to... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: A prominent Pair of False Alternatives

Tibor R. Machan Jon Gertner, author of the forthcoming “The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation,”* writes for The New York Times (in an excerpt from his book), about innovation in America. I spotted the piece and immediately suspected there was a hidden motive behind... Read more →

The Nassau Institute - The Review

From 1995 thorugh 2003, The Nassau Isntitute, (formerly the Foundation of Eocnomic Education then The Institute for Economic Freedom) under the direction of Presdient Joan Thompson, published 20 booklets entitled The Review. They were edited by Ralph Massey, the former Vice President. We are finally getting them scanned into Portable... Read more →

Lawrence H. White's new book: The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years

Rick Lowe You might remember Dr. White form his visit here with the Nassau Institute? (See it here…) His new book, "The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and... Read more →

Do the banks need to take a haircut on bad mortgages?

Rick Lowe Dr. John Rodgers used that phrase recently when he announced a scheme to help save homes from foreclosure. Go here… and here… For sometime he has been attempting to show that banks here in The Bahamas are unfair with their lending practices, by focusing on their apparently large... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: The Tenacity of the Nihilists

Tibor R. Machan In the book Reading Obama (Princeton, 2010), James T. Kloppenberg makes a case for how the kind of approach President Obama takes to public policy is now widely preferred, to put it paradoxically, on principle at the most prestigious universities. Obama’s rejection of general principles, the kind... Read more →

Two Trains - Song of the week - February 27, 2012 - Lowell George

Rick Lowe Lowell George was a special singer songwriter, who unfortunately met an early fate, but not before leaving some great music behind so we can't forget him. The founder and lead singer of Little Feat made some great music with them for a number of years but left us... Read more →

What is spontaneous order?

Rick Lowe So many in society want to design the perfect order of things. As if they can. Yet, with all the evidence of government failure in front of them they still insist they have the perfect plan for society. I stumbled across the following brief video that gives a... Read more →

Dr. John Rodgers solution to save homes from foreclosure

Rick Lowe Dr. Rodgers recently announced his remedy to save homes from foreclosure. "…reduce the Central Bank Prime Rate from 5.25 per cent to 2.25 per cent or lower,…" Banks "could reduce the principal on their troubled mortgages by 50 per cent,.." "…the Government should take immediate steps to establish... Read more →

Duane Sands Freedom of Information Act Senate Contribution

Dr. Duane Sands David Ben- Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister once said that “The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.” These insightful words provide a globally relevant, historical context for our deliberations today. Freedom of speech is a fairly new and recently acquired (realized) right in this country.... Read more →