UPCOMING 2012 EVENTS

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Free or Equal - The Ideas of Milton Friedman

Join us in The Milton Friedman Room at The Nassau Institute office for the showing of Johan Norberg's new documentary, Free or Equal. The one-hour film "examines the contemporary relevance of (Dr. Milton) Friedman’s ideas..."

Admission is free. Donations welcome.

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UPCOMING 2011 EVENTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Join us for an interesting perspective from Mr. John Tomlinson on the topic, "Why Only BETTER in The Bahamas? Why Not BEST in The Bahamas?"

Summary of the event:

• A reminder of how to remove all risk and moral hazard form our banking system and make it the safest in the world.
• Show us how the changes necessary to the Bahamian banking system will also open the opportunity for Bahamian banks to provide equity investments to businesses  opening the way to reduce debts and build an increased asset base for future generations. And,
• Third, the subject Mr. Tomlinson promised to return to in his last talk, the responsibilities we must each accept if we wish to ensure that an open and free market is developed and maintained here in The Bahamas.

Admission: $60 per person, including a three-course meal
Cash bar and Valet parking available
6:00pm Cocktail reception

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You can download a flyer (pdf) of the event here...

Background:

John Tomlinson, author of Honest Money (http://www.honest-money.com/) spoke at a Nassau Institute Discussion Group meeting on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 and offered an interesting perspective on how to turn the Bahamian Dollar into one of the worlds strongest currencies. The subject of his presentation was how to protect the Bahamian currency from the next world banking collapse and to make it safe for future generations.

Mr. Tomlinson is a former stock broker with thomson and McKinnon and a merchant banker with Ord-BT in Sydney, Australia, used to run Union Dock here in Nassau and he and his family have been resident in The Bahamas since 1963.

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING 2010 EVENTS

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Join The Nassau Institute for an evening lecture on Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 7:00pm at the British Colonial Hilton in Downtown Nassau. 

Professor Bruce Yandle will discuss "Deficits, regulation, welfare reform.  Why is the government habit so difficult to break?  Is it special interests? Just any special interests"?" in a presentation entitled, Bootleggers, Baptists and the Government Habit.

Your $75 donation will cover a three course meal (Roast Tomato & Crab Bisque - Pan Fried Mahi-Mahi with Leek & Pepper Ragout, Parsley Mashed Potatoes with a Fresh Island Vegetable Medley - Bourbon Street Pecan Pie with coffee or tea. There will be a cash bar for your convenience.

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Sponsors include: Butterfiled Bank (Bahamas) Ltd, CBS Bahamas, Custom Computers Ltd, NMC Leasing, Majestic Tours Ltd, and John's, Shoes and Accessories.

Dr. Bruce Yandle  is Dean Emeritus of Clemson University’s College of Business & Behavioral Science where he was a faculty member for 33 years.  A past member and chairman of South Carolina’s State Board of Economic Advisors, he is a Senior Fellow with Clemson’s Strom Thurmond Institute and Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center in Arlington, VA.  Recipient of South Carolina’s Order of the Palmetto, Dr. Yandle is author/editor of 16 books and has taught economics in graduate programs in France, Germany, Italy, and Czech Republic. 

 

He was a senior economist on White House staff during the Ford and Carter Administrations and Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission in the Reagan Administration.  A frequent contributor to The Freeman and Regulation magazine, Dr. Yandle served as president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education, and as a trustee and board chairman with Spartanburg Methodist College. He writes a quarterly newsletter on the economy distributed by Clemson’s Thurmond Institute.  Prior to entering a career in university teaching, Dr. Yandle was in the industrial machinery business for 15 years.

 

PAST 2010 EVENTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Speaker: Dr. Mark Skousen - Monday, February 1, 2010

Topic: "My Reflections on The Bahamian Economy: 25 Years Later"

Location: Luciano's of Chicago Restaurant, East Bay Street

 

MARCH, 2010

Speaker: Dr. Lawrence White 

Topic & Location: TBD

Biography: 

Prof. White is an Economics Professor at George Mason University. He currently teaches a graduate level course on Monetary Theory and Policy. He earned his AB at Harvard University (1977) and PhD at the University of California at Los Angeles (1982).
 
He has analyzed the theory and history of free banking, a system under which commercial
banks and market forces control the provision of banking services.

 

APRIL, 2010 

Speaker: Laura Huggins

Location & Topic: TBD

Biography:

Laura E. Huggins is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of development at PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center—a think tank in Bozeman, Montana.

Huggins specializes in free market environmentalism, property rights, and population policy.

 

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Speaker: Doug Kay

Topic: "Where is the US Headed?  The Current Political and Economic State of the US"

Location:  The Nassau Institute's Meeting Room, Bay Street Business Centre, Deveaux & Bay Streets 

Date:  Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 6:30pm