by Vance Ginn | Sep 18, 2025 | Commentary
Cut the Crony Funds, Bring Back Free Enterprise Gallup’s latest survey on capitalism should be a wake-up call. Nationally, only 54% of Americans now view capitalism positively, down from 60% just a few years ago and the lowest rating ever recorded. Even more alarming,...
by Vance Ginn | Feb 6, 2025 | Texe Lege
Recent proposals by President Donald Trump to establish a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to remove the cap on Texas’s Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF) are deeply flawed. Both ideas assume that government-run investment...
by TFR Staff | Feb 1, 2022 | Explainers
Most Texas taxpayers have probably never heard of the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF) or as it’s sometimes referred to, “the Rainy Day Fund.” Our assumption is that lawmakers are content to keep the ESF hidden because if most taxpayers knew the...
