Patrick Brenner

Patrick M. Brenner is the founder and president of the Southwest Public Policy Institute, a nonprofit research institute in the American Southwest dedicated to promoting better living through better policy.

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

Opinion February 5

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 of his tenure but the beginning of the end for the CFPB itself.

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

OPINION January 22, 2024

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 with protecting consumers, what are we supposed to do?

Hit the brakes on Elizabeth Warren's beleaguered bureaucracy

OPINION July 11, 2023

Hit the brakes on Elizabeth Warren's beleaguered bureaucracy

The overzealous Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, first proposed by Elizabeth Warren, is on a collision course with American consumer interests.