Patrick Brenner

Patrick M. Brenner is the president of the Southwest Public Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to improving the quality of life in the American Southwest by formulating, promoting, and defending sound public policy solutions. Our mission is simple: to deliver better living through better policy.

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

OPINION January 22

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.