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Albuquerque Journal: A state-run bank would put taxpayers on the hook for risky loans

Post author By Patrick M. Brenner
Post date February 17, 2025
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A state-run public bank is a dangerous experiment in government overreach that will burden taxpayers, distort credit markets, and fail where private financial institutions succeed.

Tags Bank of North Dakota, Banking, Credit, Lew Wallace, Public Bank

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Albuquerque Journal: It’s Time to Disrupt the System and Introduce Real School Reform in New Mexico

Post author By Tonja Brandt
Post date January 19, 2025
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New Mexico must embrace comprehensive school choice reform, exemplified in Senator Craig Brandt’s Education Freedom Bill, to empower parents, improve educational outcomes, and make our state competitive.

Tags Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque Public Schools (APS), Craig Brandt, Education Freedom, Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS), School Choice, Universal School Choice

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Banking on Failure: House Bill 130’s Public Bank Will Deepen New Mexico’s Credit Crisis

Post author By Patrick M. Brenner
Post date January 18, 2025
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A public bank is a forced gamble with taxpayer dollars that ignores market realities, mandates risky lending, and risks compounding the damage caused by the artificial credit crisis created by New Mexico’s interest rate cap.

Tags Angela Merkert, Bank of North Dakota, Community-based Financial Institutions, Credit, Earned Wage Access (EWA), Finance, Financial Losses, Free Market, Interest Rate Cap, Lending, No Loan For You!, Patricia Roybal Caballero, Price Controls, Public Bank of New Mexico, Tara L. Lujan, Taxpayer Risk

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Does the Mother Road Need Big Government?

Post author By D. Dowd Muska
Post date July 20, 2023
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Trait Thompson, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, is now a member of the Route 66 Centennial Commission. Nominated by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the bureaucrat joins representatives from Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and his home state whom The Swamp has tasked to “study and recommend in a report […]