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When will they learn?

Dear Editor, There has been an alarming uptick in murders over the past couple of months and as always there are voices giving causes and solutions and the political voices are nor least among them. One side seems content to let the other stew because this is not their "watch",but... Read more →

"Investment attachés to be posted at Embassies will improve the ease of doing business in The Bahamas" - Not so fast, Mr PM!

By S3S The captioned article focused on a pronouncement by the current Administration of an initiative designed to “improve the ease of doing business in The Bahamas”. Any efforts to make the country more attractive to foreign investment must be applauded. However, our very new administration may be over-optimistic and... Read more →

We are nearly 50 years old, it's time we grew up!

“Economic dependency is an unending situation in which countries, economies and economic agents depend on each other and a variety of different economic and non-economic factors for economic and non-economic reasons” (Collins Dictionary, 2012). As we approach our 50th Independence Anniversary approximately one year from now, we are as far... Read more →

Savings with the new lower VAT

Dear Mr. Editor, I’m not too sure, but it appears to this simple soul that the Prime Minister, the Minister of Economic Affairs and other government officials are of the opinion that we, the general public, are as thick as two short planks. They appear surprised that there has been... Read more →

One Beautiful Little Country facing 12 Ugly Giant Evils – The Bahamas

On the surface, The Bahamas is a young, progressive and wealthy country, as it approaches its 50th Independence Anniversary from Great Britain. As an early beneficiary of mass tourism, its economy grew steadily from the 1950’s. However, over the past five decades, the rise of regional competition, the pace of... Read more →

Price Controls: Killing the Messenger If You Don’t Like the Message

The economic consequence of government price control is economic disruption. A controlled price will still allocate resources, but not in accordance with supply and demand by Lawrence Reed When the British newspaper, The Manchester Guardian, was founded in 1821, it quickly earned a reputation for defending liberty and free markets... Read more →

What Goes Wrong When the Government Mandates Prices

Featured Scholars: Russ Roberts, Richard Epstein, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Lee Ohanian, John Cochrane, Daniel Heil "Prices are a fact of life, and so is complaining about them. You probably prefer lower prices on just about everything, but especially when buying a house or paying for college, and you wish... Read more →

The Unsavory Union of Corruption and Hypocrisy - Meet the new Poster Boy

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean”. Matthews 23, v.27 A union of corruption and hypocrisy came to light in August 2021... Read more →

Government and the Cost of Living

by Ryan Bourne Read the original post at CATO.org here,,, "This paper sets out nine policy areas across all levels of government that, combined, directly raise spending for typical households in the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution by anywhere from $830 to $3,500 per year. This list is... Read more →

Why demonise anti-vaxers and Florida?

In his Thursday, June 24, 2021 column Front Porch, Simon says: "There is a disturbing moral selfishness by those who refuse to be vaccinated, who contract the virus overseas, mostly in south Florida, then return to The Bahamas, potentially spreading more dangerous variants. "This is worse than magical thinking. It... Read more →