Consumer Finance
Credit access, rate caps, the CFPB, banking, payments and retirement savings.
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Op-Ed
Trump’s Tariffs Are Changing How Consumers Use Credit
Tariffs and credit price controls are squeezing American families From both sides.
Originally published inDC Journal
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Policy Brief
Buried in Bias
The Center for Responsible Lending’s “Buried in Debt” report fails as policy analysis.
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Policy Brief
The Need to Modernize Financial Literacy in Uncertain Economic Times
A modernized financial-literacy framework must equip students with practical, real-world tools to navigate an increasingly complex and often predatory consumer-finance landscape.
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Policy Brief
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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Op-Ed
Stablecoin Rewards Are the Shortcut to Financial Trouble
Why should Congress uphold the GENIUS Act’s ban on stablecoin rewards to prevent digital money from becoming digital debt?
Originally published inRealClearMarkets
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White Paper
The Case Against 50-Year Mortgages
How will Washington’s housing “fix” entrench debt, inflate prices, and undermine the American Dream?
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Op-Ed
The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages
Subsidized debt drives up prices, sucks up wealth, and makes it hard for millennials to buy homes.
Originally published inThe Wall Street Journal
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Policy Brief
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Reply Is the Real Joke
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.