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    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.

    Lucas J. Parker  |  December 6, 2025

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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

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  November 19, 2025

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    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

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  November 6, 2025

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    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.

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  October 25, 2025

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    Modernizing the Bank Secrecy Act: Cutting Red Tape and Ending Debanking

    Congress must update the Bank Secrecy Act for the 21st century…

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  October 23, 2025

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    Rewarding Failure: How Rohit Chopra’s Legacy at the CFPB is Crumbling

    A so-called “consumer protection” agency became a case study in regulatory excess and misplaced praise.

    Lucas J. Parker  |  October 20, 2025

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    Vought Charts New Path for the CFPB

    Russell Vought signals a shift toward proportional, efficient regulation after years of CFPB overreach under Rohit Chopra.

    Lucas J. Parker  |  October 4, 2025

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    SPPI Files Federal Complaint After New Mexico Attorney General Fails to Act

    The Southwest Public Policy Institute (SPPI) has filed a formal complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding the loan-sharking lending practices of former State Representative Tara Jaramillo and her company, Positive Outcomes, Inc. The…

    Southwest Public Policy Institute  |  September 17, 2025

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    Why senators’ efforts to kill overdraft fees is overkill

    Capping overdraft fees won’t help struggling families, it will cut off their last line of credit.

    Originally published inThe Hill

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  September 8, 2025

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    Out of One, Many

    As CFPB retreats, the new danger is a jumble of state-level mandates.

    Originally published inAmerican Banker

    Patrick M. Brenner  |  September 3, 2025

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