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    Illinois and Colorado are coming for your airline miles

    Spirit Airlines is gone. The airline business is fragile. Fuel prices move. Labor costs rise. Consumers chase low fares. Regulators block mergers. Politicians threaten bailouts. Then, when the math no longer works, planes stop flying. That…

    Originally published inThe Hill

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  May 27, 2026

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    My Retirement Accounts Fail In the World I Actually Live In

    The rich already invest this way. Workers should be allowed to as well.

    Originally published inRealClearMarkets

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  May 21, 2026

  • Op-Ed

    Instead of Taxing the Rich, Let Americans Invest Like Them

    America has created two classes of retirement savers: One class gets access to the full economy, while the other gets a neutered imitation of it.

    Originally published inNational Review

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  May 19, 2026

  • Op-Ed

    Global carbon accounting lets unelected foreign-led NGOs pick winners and losers

    Americans are increasingly being governed by rules they never voted for, written by people they will never elect, and enforced through systems they cannot challenge. Foreign-led institutions are effectively controlling U.S. domestic environmental policy. Behind the…

    Originally published inWashington Examiner

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  May 14, 2026

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    Annual Report 2026

    The Southwest Public Policy Institute is proud to release its 2026 Annual Report. What began in 2022 as a lean, technology-driven startup has grown into a national force for transparency, accountability, and market-based public policy reform.…

    Southwest Public Policy Institute  |  May 14, 2026

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    Mortgage Bankers Association’s tri-merge credit reporting reform pushes risky overhaul

    Proposal strips critical safeguards and shifts long-term costs on to American borrowers.

    Originally published inThe Washington Times

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  April 21, 2026

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    SPPI Appoints Tim Eichenberg and Archana Pandey to Board of Directors

    Public finance veteran and fintech operations leader join Institute’s leadership team to advance economic opportunity.

    Southwest Public Policy Institute  |  April 6, 2026

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    The Future of Retirement is Here

    The change could quietly unlock billions in hidden retirement wealth for everyday Americans.

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  March 31, 2026

  • White Paper No. 9

    Rolling the Dice

    Procurement failures and vendor transition risks threaten the New Mexico Lottery.

    Patrick M. Brenner and Zachary Fort  |  March 23, 2026

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    The Carbon Standardization Project

    International bureaucracies are undermining America’s energy policies.

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  March 19, 2026

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