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Reality cannot compete with dreams

"Reality cannot compete with dreams, at least not “fairly.” How easy to romanticize, perhaps about free enterprise, perhaps about possibilities of improving the world by some governmental policy which will restrict the freedom of others: Mr. Dooley made a good point when he said, “A man that’d expect to train... Read more →

John Stossel on Uncommon Knowledge

Enjoy a great 45 minute interview on Stossel's new book, No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed. Buy your copy of the book here… Visit the Uncommon Knowledge web site here… and check out their You Tube Channel here… Read more →

Al Jarrett: Rest in Peace

by Rick Lowe Al is reported to have died of a massive heart attack at 69 years of age. I met Al when visiting the Rotary Club of West Nassau and always enjoyed chatting with him. In fact we shared similar views on the debt and deficits being piled on... Read more →

A fitting tribute for Mr. Hubert Ingraham from Mrs. Anita Bernard

by Rick Lowe Mrs. Bernard is another wonderful Bahamian and she offers her personal insights in the following letter to the editor entitled, Ingraham Was An Inspirational Leader. I suspect both Mr. Ingraham and Mrs. Bernard will be missed. Click here for the letter… Read more →

Promises to be kept

by Edward Hutcheson It is possible to use the pain that people are going through to further a political objective, but political victories have a double-sidedness to them that the winners fail to anticipate in terms of actual reckoning. Some run from it by remaining in “campaign mode”, reminding us,... Read more →

So Cuba might not have oil?

Rick Lowe A friend sent this link over reporting that Repsol, the Spanish oil company was unsuccessful drilling an exploratory well off Cuba. The report indicates that it's not unusual to come up dry with four out of five attempts when drilling for oil. This presents another twist to The... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Revisiting the Responsibility of Business Managers

by Tibor R. Machan People buy stocks, shares in a firm, mainly so as to delegate to the officers the job of securing for them economic prosperity. What else did all the folks who purchased the IPOs of Facebook want? (There is, of course, much more to living a successful... Read more →

Albert Catiglia - Song of the week - May 21, 2012 - Catfish

by Rick Lowe Catfish is another great Bob Dylan song that other people have performed including a nice version by Joe Cocker on his 1976 album, Stingray, but I'm taken by Albert Castiglia's (pronounced "ka-steel-ya") version. We've seen Casteglia live a couple times now at Maguire's Hill 16, in Fort... Read more →

"Ideas Having Sex" A Conversation with John Tierney and Matt Ridley

On Reason TV "Where ideas have sex, is in technologies," says author and biologist Matt Ridley, "we give far too much credit to individuals for innovation...all of them are standing on the shoulders of lots of other people." "Ridley discussed his views on trade, invention and creativity with the New... Read more →

Helping people at gunpoint

by Rick Lowe Political or economic conversations often lead to the best way of helping the poor and my position is very much like Penn Jillette's (of Penn & Teller) in the following photo found at The Bastiat Institute's Facebook Page. More recently, discussion has centred around the PLP's proposed... Read more →