I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Even after reforms were passed, payday lenders in New Mexico and other states continue making payday loans – and sometimes at higher rates than before the laws were enacted, according to public policy experts and consumer advocates who follow the payday industry.
New HUD program allows first-time homebuyers to borrow against an $8,000 tax credit for downpayments, raising questions about what was learned from the housing crisis.
Mary Kane of the Washington Independent reports on one possible reason why the financial bailout may have failed Monday.
She writes:
Did poor and minority borrowers cause the housing crisis?
That seemed to be the consensus from the fight
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Via Angry Bear, here’s Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist, on Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. celebrating the bailout plan he presented to Congress, which was revised in marathon negotiations this weekend…
Why is an issue likely to affect millions of Americans not discussed this election cycle?
Newly minted Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden’s support for the now widely derided 2005 bankruptcy bill is emerging already as an issue. The New York Times weighed in Monday with a story noting Biden’s support for the…
The stock market decline of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is more rapid and dramatic than anyone expected, but it should be no surprise that the two eventually would wind up in some sort of trouble.
For…
Here’s yet another story, this one from The Wall Street Journal, predicting the demise of sprawl. Since gas prices have spiked, there have been more than a few predictions that high commuting costs will lead to the end of the…
