Southwest Public Policy Institutestate of the United States of America
Originally published at thehill.com on May 27, 2026. Spirit Airlines is gone. The airline business is fragile. Fuel prices move. Labor costs rise. Consumers chase low fares. Regulators block mergers. Politicians threaten bailouts. Then, when the math no longer works, planes stop flying. That is what happened to Spirit. Now, just as travelers are watching […]
A new comment letter from the Southwest Public Policy Institute highlights the existential threat that state-level interference poses to the national economy.
Why state-level price controls threaten $35 billion in credit card rewards and household budgeting.
Tariffs and credit price controls are squeezing American families From both sides.
Trump’s CFPB reset offers hope for reform, but state attorneys general are already building a fragmented and punitive new regulatory regime
Originally published at realclearmarkets.com on September 22, 2025. Senator Dick Durbin has spent much of his career in a love affair with price controls. He flirted with them in his infamous Durbin Amendment, the addendum to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. He renewed his vows with Senators Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley in pushing a 10 percent ceiling on credit […]
Capping overdraft fees won’t help struggling families, it will cut off their last line of credit.
As CFPB retreats, the new danger is a jumble of state-level mandates.
Good intentions don’t pay the bills. But choice, transparency, and access can.
Why banks, payment networks, merchant servicers, and financial firms will face a harder four years, and what to do about it.