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Are people going Galt?

Yesterday’s excellent editorial by Bradley Albury, about the waste and theft in the public (government) sector it reminded me of a recent conversation with a friend. We were discussing the obvious decline in our basic institutions: Government , family, education, morals, and ethics etc. Of course the dominant refrain was... Read more →

Schrodinger’s Faucet

by Bradley Albury, Editor, The Abaconian There is so much nonsense in our country. Millions go missing from various government departments and instead of our leaders tackling the issue we get political blame games. We should be more upset about this – instead we continue to feed into it. You... Read more →

FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low

According to Mises Wire: “The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000. To find a lower homicide rate, we... Read more →

Time For The Creation Of A Police Complaints Authority

by Adrian Gibson The Complaints and Corruption Branch/Unit (CCU) of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) should be disbanded and replaced by a Police Complaints Authority. As it stands, the concept of the CCU is representative of a rigged process, with the branch serving as a terrible design for police... Read more →

MRUniversity Econ Duel: Does Fiscal Policy Work?

This week: Econ Duel! Take a break from Macro and join us for a debate on which type of fiscal policy can help stabilize an ailing economy. Next week: Back to Macro for the first video in our new section on savings, investment, and the financial system. Imagine it’s 2008... Read more →

Dealing with the Chinese Renminbi

The Minister of Financial Services Hope Strachan’s recent posturing “…that the government is committed to the establishment of The Bahamas as a trading hub for Chinese currency, which would lead among other things to the establishment of the first Chinese bank in The Bahamas, and would — the minister contended... Read more →

The referendum and same sex marriage

Dear Editor WeblogBahamas, Okay, enough is enough with this dam’d referendum. I am sick and tired of this continual bickering. The same-sex marriage argument was purely and simply a red herring dragged across the event. As I mentioned in my last post here it was terribly noticeable that the Vote... Read more →

The Dead Zone - Going Nowhere on East Bay Street

by Richard Coulson First published in The Tribune and posted here with the kind permission of the author. “I would like to see them develop Bay Street and if it would happen that would be great.”- owner of Hoffer & Sons sports shop. “There are no words to describe it.... Read more →

The Government should have supported a Yes vote

I don't understand the fuss about the Government supporting a Yes vote? They put the Bills before Parliament suggesting the change, so it follows they should support them. If they didn't support them, why place them before Parliament to present to the populace? Where I do think the opponents have... Read more →

Gun Boys Rhapsody. A play witten & directed by Ian Strachan

We just got back from Gun Boys Rhapsody in the Black Box Theatre at The Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts, and all we can say is WOW! What a play! What performances! There are just two performances left. One at 8:00 p.m. tonight and one at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow.... Read more →