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Re-Defining NHI

Dr. Duane Sands, the new Minister of Health has sought to clarify what National Health Insurance is. According to this Nassau Guardian article by Chester Robards, Dr. Sands explained that NHI should ensure: “...all people have access to needed promotive, preventative, curative and rehabilitative health services of sufficient quality to... Read more →

The Five Institutions of the Market Economy

by Henry Hazlitt This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Support FEE here... Let us see what the basic institutions of the market economy are. We may subdivide them for convenience of discussion into (1) private property, (2) free markets, (3) competition, (4) division and combination... Read more →

The tide has turned on the PLP

Well after Fred Mitchell (PLP Senator) tried to shut party members down about their desire for party apologies and the need for positive change in the PLP, former Cabinet Minister Loftus Roker and columnist Phil Galanis have laid it out that people like Chester Cooper (PLP MP) are correct. In... Read more →

Proper Fiscal Management Within Five Years?

Yesterday was the launch of The Public Financial Management & Performance Monitoring Reform Project (see attached pdf flyer below) which promises to bring government accounting, statistics, fiscal management and procurement into the 20th century. The project is possible through the local office of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) with... Read more →

End of the Chrétien Consensus?

"The Chrétien Consensus was an implicit agreement that transcended political party and geography regarding the soundness of balanced budgets, declining government debt, smaller and smarter government spending, and competitive taxes that emerged in the early 1990s and lasted through to roughly the mid-2000s. "The reforms began in Saskatchewan under the... Read more →

What should the government do about the bad economy?

It’s an inevitable topic of conversation in most gatherings. As the saying goes, “Government has to do something.” I agree. Parliament needs to redefine governments role. Back in 2009, referencing a Cato Policy Report by Reuven Brenner (The Causes of Economic Growth pdf…) these observations bear repeating: "Options seem limited... Read more →

Matt Ridley's 'Case for Free-Market Anticapitalism'

Matt Ridley Ronald Bailey, at the Reason.com blog Hit & Run points us to Matt Ridley’s 2017 Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies where Ridley argues “that the champions of markets and enterprise need to recapture their radicalism, to reassert the right to be a disruptive,... Read more →

Progressives Should Look to Their Own Troublesome History

This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. I’m sure that the irony has struck others whose wits are sharper and quicker than mine. This morning my eyes happened upon my copy of Thomas Leonard’s excellent 2016 volume, Illiberal Reformers. It sat innocently on one of my... Read more →

FNM Triggering A Further Moody's Downgrade?

What's all this rhetoric that the FNM pronouncements about the PLP's fiscal irresponsibility and allegations of fraud are causing Moody's to consider a further downgrade of the country's debt rating/credit worthiness? Surely Moody's is not smart enough to detect the decades of fiscal irresponsibility like piling on deficits and debt,... Read more →

Check Your Ideological Blind Spot

This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. One of the shortest, simplest yet deepest books I have read on politics is The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling. It’s a mere 146 pages and you can have it on your Kindle for a mere $3.99.... Read more →