Free-market solutions to web censorship?

What happens when governments attempt to censor information? Innovation and the market take over. Telex is a system being developed that could potentially make it impossible for governments to censor individual websites.

This has incredible implications for the spread of information, government transparency and accountability!

Cafe Hayek on government schools

Economist Donald Boudreaux discusses the importance of competition in education. A line that stuck out to me:

"...each government school has a captive pool of students, and that government schools get their revenues not from paying customers but from taxed property owners."

The Bluegrass Institute has long been an advocate of more competition in the education system.

Video: The Morality of Profit

This video is a great discussion on a basic economic concept: profit.

So often we hear about the "evil" people who "exploit" others by profiting. This video addresses that:

U.S. slips again in the Index of Economic Freedom

Each year the Heritage Foundation publishes an informative report ranking the nations in the world based on their level of freedom.

The United States lost ground falling from eight to nine this year.  This is a great way to compare nations across the world.  Take a look!

Apparently BIPPS is about to be 'balanced' out

Yesterday a Herald-Leader columnist/blogger posted about a new think tank based out of Berea called the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.  At the end of the post this statement is made:

Expect the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy to provide some progressive balance to the conservative Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, based in Bowling Green.

Do we really need "balance" provided for the ideas of sound fiscal policy, accountability in education, and transparency in government? The Bluegrass Institute proudly stands behind these ideas.  We are proud to be Kentucky's only free-market think that provides free-market solutions to Kentucky's most pressing problems.  Does liberty need to be balanced? We don't think so.

If you would like to help us continue our fight for these ideas, click here to make a contribution!

Prof: Government didn't invent the railroad

John Stossel on education and the market

In 2006, The Bluegrass Institute hosted a discussion with John Stossel on free-market solutions to the currently government monopoly - one that he claims is ruining our children's lives.  You can watch the entire discussion below!


John Stossel, 2006 from freedomky on Vimeo.