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In my opinion: How will we get this virus under control?

ONLY the people can get this virus under control . The Government can only keep driving home the five (5) steps using radio and TV . AGREE 100%: THE FIVE (5) DO / RULES / STEPS to life during this virus . 1. Wear a mask , 2) Social Distancing... Read more →

Hurricane Isaias Update - Tracking Map

The animated image below shows the track from the 5pm report Read more →

Hurricane Isaias Heading Our Way - Tracking Map

Be safe Bahamas. Read more →

Human Progress? Find evidence of it here...

"HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust, as well as additional funding from the William H. Donner Foundation. The website requires no registration or membership. All of its content and features can be used free, but... Read more →

One Barber's Successful Lockdown Defiance Shows Why the Separation of Powers Matters

Michigan barber Karl Manke deserves credit for his bravery and civil disobedience, but his courage may have been for naught without the intellectual contributions of Montesquieu and James Madison. by Jonathan Miltimore This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Karl Manke has been cutting hair since... Read more →

Necessary and Laudable actions to address Covid-19 but are they Sufficient?

By S3S In times of extreme crises, there is no greater comfort than to be governed by experiential knowledge, especially when that knowledge finds a near perfect fit with the resulting challenges and problems. Such is the situation in The Bahamas, at the moment, where we are fortunate to be... Read more →

Marginal Revolution University (MRU) | Introduction to Economics

Economics is much more than just numbers and graphs. In fact, we can use economics to explain much of what we encounter in our daily lives. For instance, why is customer service at your local restaurant usually better than that of the cable company? To find the answer we can... Read more →

The Prehistory of Public Choice

Public choice looks at political activity from an economic point of view. This month we look at literature to explore how such thinking began. It’s often been asserted that the economic way of thinking is a very recent creation - the product, perhaps, of influential thinkers like Adam Smith and... Read more →

The wizards among us

There must be a wizard that makes it all happen. Certainly the order around us can't happen as if by an invisible hand? Professor Don Boudreaux's Quotation of the Day… "…is from page 473 of my late Nobel-laureate colleague Jim Buchanan’s 1994 paper “Economic Theory in the Postrevolutionary Moment of... Read more →

Are You Energy Literate?

Concern for the environment is one thing. But Environemental zealotry can be so destructive. Lori Ackerman, Mayor of Fort St. John, British Columbia argues for Canadian industry in general and the importance of oil and gas. "Even renewable sources of energy that many may feel are far removed from traditional... Read more →