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Why no cost benefit analysis to accompany solar suggestions?

There is a popular opinion that The Bahamas can easily move to solar energy as our source for electricity. After all we're still burning diesel fuel, in some cases Bunker C, to generate power for our daily lives. While we've been carrying our green bags to the supermarket for years,... Read more →

Tesla: An Enigma?

Working in the automotive industry I find the discussion around Tesla intriguing. This article and accompanying video from Yahoo Finance provides some insight. There can be no denying the impact Tesla has had. Read more →

ideacity 2007: Richard Dawkins

"One of the most respected scientists in the world and the biggest draw in secularism, Richard Dawkins always generates impressive crowds when visiting North America. Secularism is sweeping America as a movement, and Richard Dawkins is the catalyst who galvanizes it. "From 1995 to 2008 Richard Dawkins was the Charles... Read more →

IEA: Hayek Lecture 2018: How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change The World?

If you don't follow the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in the UK, you should because you are missing great lectures like the one below from Matt Ridley. "Renowned author Matt Ridley gave 2018’s Hayek Memorial Lecture. Matt’s books – which include The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything... Read more →

"Capitalism is the moral (rational-self-interest), political (individualism), legal (rule of law), economic (free-market) social system based on the principle of individual rights that results in peace, progress, and human flourishing." "Capitalism is the unknown ideal." Why is Capitalism the ideal social system? Take the tour at Capitalism.org here... https://www.capitalism.org/capitalism-tour/ Explore... Read more →

Discussion: A Future Without Fossil Fuels

Dick Coulson forwarded a recent New York Times article to me by Bill McKibben on the growth of "green energy" and the ultimate decline of fossil fuels. It's a good read. Here's a snippet from the article A Future Without Fossil Fuels?: "...in the 2020s—probably the early 2020s—the demand for... Read more →

American Institute for Economic Research

Are you up for some interesting brief daily reads? The AIER can satiate that desire. Here's a few links from the past couple days: No One Ever Paid Those High Tax Rates (brief video) Against Political Gnosticism That Fake Poll on the Green New Deal Lobbying Is Like Robbing a... Read more →

Where Economics Went Wrong

Economists should return to their classical liberal roots and recognize economics as an art involving non-scientific judgment. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. In a recent article, Lars Peter Hansen argues that the commonly used phrase “evidence-based policy” is misleading. He quotes Alfred Marshall in... Read more →

Bahamian Oil - A Misunderstanding of History

by Richard Coulson The ineffable Ms. Sam Duncombe has proclaimed that she is “more than irritated” by Government’s decision to extend to year-end 2020 Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) license to drill an exploratory well on its concessions southwest of Andros. The President of activist group Re-earth has often expressed her... 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 →