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Below you'll find a list of all posts from June, 2010

“New Directions in Bahamian Economic Policy”

In these taxing times the inevitable unpleasant fall-out from the 2010 Budget is a time to review a tax expert’s …

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Mr. Branville McCartney and his populist idea for government funded entrepreneurs.

The press quotes Mr. Branville McCartney’s speech in Parliament:  "There are a dozen businesses that I could name today, that …

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History of the Monetary Systems and Public Finances in The Bahamas, 1946 – 2003

THE NASSAU INSTITUTE is privileged to publish Dr. Alvin Rabushka’s History of the Monetary Systems and the Public Finances in …

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The Bahamian Economy and Taxation

The Bahamas Government’s Budget for 2010/2011 presents an ideal opportunity to consider a paper written by Dr. Alvin Rabushka in …

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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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