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Buried in Bias

Post author By Southwest Public Policy Institute
Post date December 12, 2025
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The Center for Responsible Lending’s “Buried in Debt” report fails as policy analysis.

Tags Alternative Financial Services, Amortization Schedules, Annual Percentage Rate (APR), Banking Fees, Bolen Elliehausen Miller Study, Buried In Debt Report, Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), consumer choice, Consumer Credit Policy, Consumer Lending Research, Consumer Welfare, Cost Of Living Crisis, credit access, Credit Bureau Data, Credit Denial Rates, Credit Market Regulation, Credit Rationing, Credit Stacking, Credit Supply Constraints, Deep-Subprime Borrowers, Difference-In-Differences Analysis, Economic Opportunity, Evidence-Based Policymaking, Financial Hardship, financial inclusion, Financial Literacy, financial regulation, Financial Services Policy, Free Market Finance, Housing Cost Burden, Income Volatility, Interest Rate Caps, Loan Availability, Loan Disclosures, Market Distortion, Mortgage Finance, No Loan For You, No Loan For You!, Overdraft Fees, Payday Lending, Poverty And Inequality, Price Controls, Regulatory Economics, Regulatory Harm, Risk-Based Pricing, Selection Bias, Small-Dollar Credit Research, Small-Dollar Loans, Southwest Public Policy Institute (SPPI), Subprime Borrowers, Substitute Financial Products, Survivorship Bias, Too!, Total Cost Of Credit, Usury Laws

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Report: No Loan for You, Too!

Post author By Southwest Public Policy Institute
Post date June 15, 2023
2 Comments on Report: No Loan for You, Too!

Patrick M. Brenner stands outside Del Norte Credit Union during our "No Loan For You, Too!" experiment.

The unintended consequences of price controls on consumer access to credit.

Tags American Southwest Credit Union, Bank of America, Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), Credit, Del Norte Credit Union, Everyone’s Federal Credit Union, FirstLight Federal Credit Union, Four Corners Credit Union, Internationalites Federal Credit Union, Lending, Mountain America Credit Union, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Navy Federal Credit Union, No Loan For You!, Nusenda Credit Union, Otero Federal Credit Union, Payday Alternative Loan, Pentagon Federal Credit Union, Specialized Emergency Loans, The Pew Charitable Trusts, U-1st Community Federal Credit Union, U.S. Bank, U.S. Eagle Federal Credit Union, Veridian Credit Union, Wells Fargo

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What’s Past is Prologue: David Silberman’s History of Attacking the Products He’s Now Tasked With Studying

Post author By Patrick M. Brenner
Post date October 23, 2022
1 Comment on What’s Past is Prologue: David Silberman’s History of Attacking the Products He’s Now Tasked With Studying

David Silberman has a history of weaponizing the government to routinely and aggressively target the very products he is now charged with assessing the safety and affordability of.

Tags Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), Conflict of Interest, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Credit, David Silberman, Lending, Specialized Emergency Loans

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