SPPI Welcomes Silicon Valley Innovator Dain Ehring to Board of Directors by Southwest Public Policy Institute
December 8, 2025 The Southwest Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is proud to announce that Dain Ehring, a nationally recognized technology entrepreneur and pioneer in financial and digital innovation,…
Read more: SPPI Welcomes Silicon Valley Innovator Dain Ehring to Board of Directors The Need to Modernize Financial Literacy in Uncertain Economic Times by Lucas J. Parker
December 6, 2025 A modernized financial-literacy framework must equip students with practical, real-world tools to navigate an increasingly complex and often predatory consumer-finance landscape.
Report: 1033 Error, Rule Not Sound by Southwest Public Policy Institute
November 24, 2025 The CFPB’s open-banking mandate endangers consumers.
The Washington Post: New Mexico knows Trump’s BLM nominee. Back away. by Patrick M. Brenner
November 22, 2025 Former New Mexico Republican chairman Steve Pearce is the opposite of what the complex agency needs.
The Death Knell for Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB by Patrick M. Brenner
November 19, 2025 Trump’s CFPB reset offers hope for reform, but state attorneys general are already building a fragmented and punitive new regulatory regime
SPPI Opposes Steve Pearce’s BLM Nomination by Patrick M. Brenner
November 18, 2025 The Institute warns that the Pearce nomination could undermine western land management
Fox News: Trump’s 50-year mortgage just introduces a new kind of debt by Patrick M. Brenner
November 17, 2025 50-year loan terms would triple total debt while government regulations continue driving up building costs
RealClearMarkets: Stablecoin Rewards Are the Shortcut to Financial Trouble by Patrick M. Brenner
November 12, 2025 Why should Congress uphold the GENIUS Act’s ban on stablecoin rewards to prevent digital money from becoming digital debt?