Post Archive by Month

Below you'll find a list of all posts from March, 2004

LNG – Don't look A Gift Horse In The Mouth

THE PROPOSED LNG PLANTS ON OCEAN CAY, 35 MILES SOUTH OF BIMINI, AND IN FREEPORT. "DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE …

The Environment and Property

The "Ambassador to the Environment", a hyperbolic description for the Chairman of the BEST Commission, has publicly turned the heat …

WORKSHOP: The Global Challenge and the Need for Reform

We are pleased to present the details of a very special event that the Nassau Institute and The Atlas Economic …

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place fund with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.