Patricia Patnode was a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Patricia is a regular contributor for The Cedar Rapids Gazette and The Conservator, and has also been featured in USA Today, the Washington Examiner and Discourse Magazine. She received a BA from Loras College in her home state of Iowa.
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News
Fintech’s Buy Now, Pay Later system helps consumers budget wisely: CEI analysis
Klarna, a Swedish financial technology (FinTech) company, is set to file publicly on the US stock market as soon as next week. Klarna’s Buy Now,…
Report highlights the positives of Iowa’s environmental permitting process
A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report highlights the achievements Iowa has accomplished in improving its environmental permitting system, making infrastructure projects and economic growth…
House set to rebuke EPA’s de facto EV mandate
Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Daren Bakst: “The very idea that the federal government would try and kill off…
Blog
Yes, women had access to credit before 1974
- By: Patricia Patnode
March is Women’s History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate many “firsts” for women in public life. One of those “firsts” is the ability…
Gov. Youngkin should veto restrictive credit bill
- By: Patricia Patnode
While many watchful eyes focus on the economic impacts of actions of federal lawmakers inside the Beltway, pending legislation in a statehouse 100 miles south…
Coinbase’s FOIA complaints against FDIC raise serious government transparency concerns
- By: Patricia Patnode
In the waning days of the Biden administration, whistleblowers and investigative journalists put forth alarming revelations of financial regulators jawboning banks to cut off services…
Op-Eds/Articles
The Economic Standard
Rebecca Minkoff’s Success: A Testament to the Importance of Personal Credit
- By: Patricia Patnode
Nobody likes paying interest on a credit card bill. It may seem like an easy out to just have Congress forbid it. But what people…
Issues & Insights
Reviving Community Banking By Lifting Barriers To New Banks
- By: Patricia Patnode
Americans have far fewer banks to choose from than they once did. The American banking industry has consolidated, with the number of U.S. banks falling…
Bill Would Prevent Banks From Discriminating Over Clients’ Ideology, But Here’s the Problem
- By: Patricia Patnode
The government shouldn’t pressure banks and other financial institutions to avoid doing business with politically controversial people and businesses, just as bakers should not be compelled…
Studies
Corn Whiskey Clarity
Over the past two decades, Iowa has implemented several reforms aimed at enhancing the efficiency of its environmental permitting procedures. This report focuses on two…
Citations
The Bark and Bite of DOGE
National Review cited CEI’s experts on the DOGE Iowa has also implemented successful bureaucratic process improvements by imitating business. In a paper for the Competitive…
The American Spectator
Will California Hobble the US Railroad Industry?
- By: Patricia Patnode
CEI’s Patricia Patnode is cited in Reason on the EPA’s imposition of regulation: As Patricia Patnode of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which signed the…