Assigning Blame for Fannie and Freddie and Acting to Prevent it from Happening Again

Check out this excellent article (by a self-described liberal) which explains how Fannie and Freddie are at the heart of the current economic crisis and explains how the media is all too eager to blame “free markets” for government failure.
On a related note, the National Taxpayers Union and Competitive Enterprise Institute have set up a [...]

Ranking the Governors

The Washington, DC-based Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. While not always in alignment with them on policy, we at the Rio Grande Foundation have a great deal of respect for Cato and work with them on a regular basis.
Recently, Cato published its ranking of governors. The study which is in pdf format can [...]

Who is Manipulating Oil and Gas Prices Now?

It seems like only yesterday that Congress and all manner of people who are ignorant of basic economics were bashing oil and gas companies for their supposed efforts to manipulate prices and keep them high. Now, with the global economy on the skids, crude prices are plummeting right along with the stock market and are [...]

New Mexico lags in new economic freedom index

According to the new U.S. Economic Freedom Index 2008 Report which was co-published by the California-based Public Research Institute and Forbes, New Mexico is less economically-free than most states (as indicated on the chart on page 11, it is ranked 41).
There is no question that New Mexico lags in economic freedom and that it relies [...]

RGF Board Member Ken Brown, PhD Lays Out Economic Reality

Rarely will you ever see a more fact-base and easy to understand analysis of everyday economic issues than RGF Board member and Director of Research Ken Brown’s opinion piece on the pages of the Albuquerque Journal today.
Brown explains the “broken window fallacy” and why so-called “economic development” simply does not work. Copies of this piece [...]

Analyzing Barack Obama’s Tax Plan

We at the Rio Grande Foundation spend a vast majority of our time analyzing and discussing New Mexico-specific issues and policies. But, I was given a chance recently by a national syndicate to write an opinion piece on Barack Obama’s tax plan.
With wall-to-wall coverage of the conventions and the campaigns, I humbly submit my $.02. [...]

Impact Fees: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?

City Councilor Michael Cadigan has an op-ed in today’s ABQ Journal that defends the City’s practice of charging ”impact fees” on development. The opinion piece was in response to Councilor Sanchez who recently questioned the economic impact of these fees when he said, “fees for the west end of Central Avenue are nine times higher [...]

Corporate Taxes Push Budweiser to InBev

We at the Rio Grande Foundation took the position earlier a few weeks ago on this blog that the Belgian company InBev should have the right to purchase Anheuser-Busch. Unfortunately, the purchase of InBev was not simply an example of the free market at work. Instead, the takeover was at least partially the result of [...]

Eye on New Mexico

If you missed today’s episode of “Eye on New Mexico,” I discussed the proposed arena/convention center expansion with UNM professor Kate Krause this morning. Video of the show is available here. Considering that she was supposed to be a supporter of the project, Krause certainly comes off as sharing my healthy skepticism of the proposed [...]

Coverage of RGF Comments at Arena/Hotel Town Hall

As mentioned in previous postings, I spoke at the New Mexico First town hall on the proposed taxpayer-financed arena and hotel in downtown Albuquerque. The event was covered in both the Albuquerque Journal and on KOB TV (article and video available).

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