by Lawrence W. Reed “…No man can rightly lay claim, moral or otherwise, to owning another…” A-Students-Essay-That-Changed-The-World (pdf) From The Nassau Institute... More from Lawrence W. Reed here...
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Tom Brady’s Super Bowl success has outlasted many titans of corporate America. by Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Super Bowl 55 is now history. In some ways, it was a familiar scene. After 60 minutes of...
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The Institute of Economic Affairs, an influential British Think Tank, has provided and excellent series of videos on Economics with Dr. Steve Davies. Here's their introduction to the videos: "The first in a two-part series, providing 33 films in total, will cover everything from basic economic theory to important historical...
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by Peter T. Bauer (Lord Bauer) (1915–2002) Thursday, December 1, 1966 This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Foreign aid is clearly not a necessary condition of economic development. This fact is obvious from the history of the developed countries, all of which began poor and...
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New Zealand’s experience is one of numerous examples in which socialism caused ruin that capitalism then fixed. by Lawrence W. Reed (Editor's note: A shorter version of this article was recently published in both English and Spanish at ELAMERICAN.COM). This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article....
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Former Governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas in discussing the IMF's recent recommendations for austerity by the Government said "that “it’s too narrow a measurement” to focus on debt-to-GDP ratios, which only assess a country’s debt as a percentage of its economic output, Mr Smith added that last...
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CESRA turns up the heat. The boiling frog dilemma anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive is an apt description of what is happening here in The Bahamas over the past couple decades. The political class keeps ratcheting up regulations and taxes without much fuss from the frogs (business...
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Fundamentally there are two forms of criticism – destructive and constructive. The destructive type is not all helpful and only appeases the sender of the message. The latter type should be welcomed and be favourably considered, Currently The Bahamas is facing two pandemics – namely Covid-19 & Corruption. Covid -19...
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There has been much written about this topic both by those in favour and those vehemently against. While the viewpoints are usually well substantiated, I have not seen what I consider a business assessment of the pro’s and con’s. In line with this objective, I list issues below for consideration:...
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