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The Most Prosperous Ancient Nation You’ve Never Heard Of

This country lasted over 300 years and covered more territory than all of Scandinavia. by Lawrence W. Reed This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. The list of extinct countries includes the better known ones like the USSR (aptly dubbed “the Evil Empire” by Ronald Reagan)... Read more →

A Student’s Essay That Changed The World

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... Read more →

10 Companies That Advertised During Brady’s First Super Bowl in 2002 (and the Story They Tell)

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... Read more →

Economics 101 from the IEA with Dr. Steve Davies

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... Read more →

Foreign Aid: An Instrument for Progress?

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... Read more →

New Zealand's Path to Prosperity Began With Rejecting Democratic Socialism

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.... Read more →

Bahamas Debt to GDP "...too narrow a measurement"?

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... Read more →

The Bahamas and The Boiling Frog Dilemma

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... Read more →

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Criticism

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... Read more →