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Below you'll find a list of all posts from November, 2007

The Benefits of High Gasoline Prices

(This essay looks at high gas prices and what should be done about them. The Bahamas did not get into …

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The Song That Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction

This speech was originally posted at the Ludwig von Mises Institute site on October 16, 2007 and is reprinted here …

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Why Managed Trade Is Not Free Trade

Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount …

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Discussion Group Series – 6:30pm, Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Please join us for our monthly discussion group series meeting at our offices at The Bay Street Centre, Bay & …

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Can The Bahamas import the Irish Miracle?

Irish prosperity has been described recently as a “Miracle” and countries who have not experienced such prosperity inevitably ask “Can …

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Thought to Ponder

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.Alan Greenspan
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