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Some interesting Facts On Cuba

Education: The information-hungry populace in the Batista era was well-educated, as it remains. Student registration at primary schools in 1955 was 1,032 students per 10,000 inhabitants, higher than the figures for 1990 of 842. The registration rate for higher education was an impressive 38 per 10,000, about the same as... Read more →

What If Charity Replaced Taxation?

Perhaps if the government demanded less (coercively), people would give more voluntarily. by Jean Vilbert This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Health care. Education. Among others, these goods have been considered so important that most current governments make a huge effort to provide them to... Read more →

Milton Friedman: Which Way for Capitalism from 1978

The Nobel Prize-winning economist charts two possible futures for American capitalism. Milton Friedman | From the May 1978 issue of Reason Magazine "What is the future of capitalism?—by which I mean the future of competitive capitalism—free enterprise capitalism. In a certain sense, every major society is capitalist. Russia has a... Read more →

Libertarianism

Justice, prosperity, responsibility, tolerance, cooperation, and peace. Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called libertarians. Find out more here... Read more →

Vagrants in the graveyards

I was recently invited to a meeting to discuss the issue of vagrants and how they have made the graveyards along Shirley Street their home away from home. These unfortunate souls strew garbage among other things throughout graveyards when they sleep there. By day we see them roaming the neighbourhood.... Read more →

CD Howe: Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability

As The Bahamas goes down the road to socialised medicine it should honestly consider results in Canada particularly in view of the fact that our own National Insurance Scheme is becoming compromised. Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability April 30, 2019 "Growth in healthcare spending by provinces and territories... Read more →

The Economics and Ethics of The Welfare State

The Nassau Institute first presented the Economics of Liberty, Lecture Series in 2011. The lectures were conducted May 2 & 3, 2011, by Dr. Richard Ebeling, Professor of Economics at Northwood University, Midland Michigan, USA. This was one of the lectures presented and provides insight into the history of the... Read more →

Arthur Seldon and his spotlight on government failure

With all the talk about Government being best able to solve life's problems today I am reminded that limited government works best. And if I were to point to one modern day source for material on the benefits of the free market and government failure from someone in the same... Read more →

Laundered lies

Matt Ridley has another brilliant column. This time on a surge in medical and environmental pseudoscience: Laundered lies How bad science gets used for power and profit by some activists by Matt Ridley ‘The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote H.L. Mencken, ‘is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence... Read more →

A Health Care Philosophy for The Bahamas, 1978

The more things change... As you read this report bear in mind the discussion today still centres on fixing many of the issues that existed in 1976. Download Health Care for the Bahamas 1976 (PDF) report here... Successive governments make policy decisions without releasing the data they claim they are... Read more →