Coalition backs Governor Kehoe’s effort to modernize Missouri’s tax code.
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Santa Fe New Mexican: Let’s reimagine financial literacy education
We need to modernize how financial literacy is taught entirely.
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In the News: National Media and Policy Leaders Highlight SPPI
National media, policy leaders, and regional voices alike are amplifying SPPI’s research, analysis, and solutions.
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Report: 1033 Error, Rule Not Sound
The CFPB’s open-banking mandate endangers consumers.
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The Death Knell for Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB
Trump’s CFPB reset offers hope for reform, but state attorneys general are already building a fragmented and punitive new regulatory regime
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Report: The Case Against 50-Year Mortgages
How will Washington’s housing “fix” entrench debt, inflate prices, and undermine the American Dream?
As the December 7 Medicare Open Enrollment deadline approaches, rural seniors face shrinking coverage options as major insurers scale back Medicare Advantage plans nationwide.
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s slow, self-serving defense of the 30-year mortgage proves that lifetime debt, not homeownership, is the product they’re really selling.
Originally published at abqjournal.com on October 18, 2025. Jeff Tucker is right about one thing: New Mexico needs to think big. His recent call for a billion-dollar NBA arena in Albuquerque is exactly the kind of visionary thinking our state has lacked for decades. But where Tucker sees an opportunity for government to build a […]
This guest commentary was written by Ed Harris, CEO of Harris Northwest Advisors and a Visiting Contributor at the Southwest Public Policy Institute. In his argument about APR, Patrick Brenner is wrong but inadvertently correct on a larger point he doesn’t address. An APR calculation is mathematically accurate. Most fixed-rate 30-year mortgages are priced similarly, […]