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Patrick Brenner

Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
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Covers:  financial inclusivity, consumer credit, personal finance, government transparency
Doesn't Cover: social issues, election "fraud", conspiracy theories
Writer. Thinker. Advocate. @southwestpolicy muckrack.com/pmbrenner91 southwestpolicy.com

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Patrick Brenner’s Biography

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Patrick M. Brenner is the President of the Southwest Public Policy Institute, a research institute dedicated to improving the quality of life in the American Southwest by formulating, promoting, and defending sound public policy solutions.

Before launching SPPI, Patrick worked in public relations and marketing, then took charge of the donor engagement and government transparency litigation programs at the Rio Grande Foundation as the Vice President of Development. Patrick’s experience, advocacy…

Patrick Brenner’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages

The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages

Subsidized debt drives up prices, sucks up wealth, and makes it hard for millennials to buy homes.

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Trump can delete Elizabeth Warren's failed experiment once and for all

Trump can delete Elizabeth Warren's failed experiment once and for all

Rohit Chopra's departure as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should not be just the end o…

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President-elect Trump should declare a ceasefire in the war on credit

President-elect Trump should declare a ceasefire in the war on credit

Under the Biden administration, a trio of regulatory agencies have teamed up to limit consumers' access to cr…

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The Supreme Court has emboldened the CFPB, threatening American consumers

The Supreme Court has emboldened the CFPB, threatening American consumers

The CFPB demands rigorous scrutiny by unconflicted watchdogs to restore sanity to our digital and economic la…

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Who's protecting consumers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

Who's protecting consumers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

On behalf of the 256,000 American consumers whose protected information was compromised by the agency tasked …

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Hit the brakes on Elizabeth Warren's beleaguered bureaucracy

Hit the brakes on Elizabeth Warren's beleaguered bureaucracy

The overzealous Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, first proposed by Elizabeth Warren, is on a collision c…

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Articles

Financial Data: Banks and Software Companies Should Negotiate Prices Freely

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By Patrick Brenner
| National Review Verified
There is no reason for Washington to decide that the price of financial data must be zero.
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Zillow traps buyers into overpriced mortgages, and it's costing Americans $65 billion annually

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By Patrick Brenner
| MSN Verified
Americans who bought homes since 2022 now collectively pay an estimated $65 billion annually in avoidable mortgage costs. That figure, published in new Bankrate research based on 3.2 million mortgage originations tracked in federal housing data and highlighted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal online, represents money homebuyers are losing for one simple reason: they don't shop around for the best mortgage rate.
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OPINION: 'Competition' Act threatens New Mexico’s economy

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By Patrick Brenner
| Albuquerque Journal Verified
Main Street small businesses in New Mexico are legacy pillars of our economy, and they are undeniably facing a brutal financial squeeze from persistent inflation, rising labor costs and shrinking margins.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

I pitched to the Federalist in a freelance capacity

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. An Underwood from the 1920's.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Winston Smith, citizen journalist from 1984