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Price Control to the rescue

Here we go again. "THE Price Commission has relaunched its 24-hour hotline in an effort to combat serious breaches of the Price Control Act and announced its partnership with the National Emergency Management Agency to ensure consumers aren’t taken advantage of this hurricane season...." More... With an economy for goods... Read more →

Seeking honest explanations

Dear Mr. Editor, When, oh when, might we expect a modicum of honesty from of political classes? Earlier this week the leader of the opposition, “Brave” Davis was up on his high-horse again bitching and moaning that under “this” FNM the price of electricity has risen in excess of 10... Read more →

BEC/BPL Decades of Blackouts

Let's cut a little slack for BPL and say because of the archipaleagic nature of our country with small populations spread throughout it's an expensive proposition to provide power to all want to be electricity consumers so maybe we should be paying a bit more than our neighbours. But that's... Read more →

Why Intellectuals Don't Like Capitalism

by Rainer Zitelmann Following the collapse of socialist systems around the world at the end of the 1980s, the superiority of the market economy was clear to many. Nevertheless, latent or overt anti-capitalist animosities have persisted, and, since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, have even gained considerable... Read more →

Listening to climate doomsters makes our situation worse

ID 115221206 © Gunold | Dreamstime. An interesting take on a very "hot" topic. "...The IPCC’s Working Group I reports (the physical sciences) were rightly described by activists as the “gold standard” description of climate research and the most reliable statement of scientists’ consensus. But by 2011 activists were saying... Read more →

Where, Oh Where Is Civilty And Comity?

by Dr. Donald M. McCartney, D.M. The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. ~Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country I have witnessed elections, as a boy, from 1956. This is the worst that I have ever seen it. Bahamians, both... Read more →

Will hydrogen (Fuel Cell) vehicles be the future?

Keith Crain editor-in-chief of Automotive News recently wrote an editorial with the heading "Electric will be a rude awakening" where he asserts that it will be a long time before electric cars assume market leadership simply because of the hundreds of millions of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles on the... Read more →

The Urge to Do Something

by Michael Munger "There is a problem in public affairs. If there is a state, with the capacity to do good, the temptation to do something is irresistible. If someone objects, the response is always “Well, we have to do something. What would you do?” "It’s not obvious we should... Read more →

Pat Ward is wrong and right at the same time

"There is a gap between the advancements in technology in vehicles and the advancements in the knowledge of the local vehicle repair shops that have to repair these technologically advanced machines, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bahamas First Holdings Ltd. Patrick Ward said yesterday." Nassau Guardian Where he... Read more →

The Ethics of Economic Growth

In this issue of Cato Unbound, Tyler Cowen begins the discussion by drawing on themes from his new book, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals.Cowen argues for the ethical importance of long-term growth and civilizational stability. Read the debate here... From the liner... Read more →