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New Mexico legislators are considering higher taxes and new restrictions on nicotine products such as nicotine pouches. These proposals are typically framed as public-health measures. In practice, they risk doing precisely the opposite—nudging smokers back toward cigarettes, expanding illicit markets, and increasing preventable disease. Cigarettes remain the most dangerous nicotine product legally sold in the […]
We need to modernize how financial literacy is taught entirely.
National media, policy leaders, and regional voices alike are amplifying SPPI’s research, analysis, and solutions.
Tariffs and credit price controls are squeezing American families From both sides.
Former New Mexico Republican chairman Steve Pearce is the opposite of what the complex agency needs.
The Institute warns that the Pearce nomination could undermine western land management
Originally published at abqjournal.com on October 18, 2025. Jeff Tucker is right about one thing: New Mexico needs to think big. His recent call for a billion-dollar NBA arena in Albuquerque is exactly the kind of visionary thinking our state has lacked for decades. But where Tucker sees an opportunity for government to build a […]
Capping overdraft fees won’t help struggling families, it will cut off their last line of credit.
For exceptional achievement in ignoring market realities and promoting policies that backfire spectacularly.
Tara Jaramillo’s payday lending scheme didn’t happen despite New Mexico’s interest rate cap: it happened because of it, with a little help from Fred Nathan and the price-fixing crusaders at Think New Mexico.
