Bryan Triangle
Occupying the Wrong Place
The Times and Democrat
Halloween Warnings Not Just Paranoia
Wall Street Journal
The Fiscal Union Delusion
Any day now, the leaders of the euro zone will present a grand plan to prevent future fiscal or financial crises from threatening the single…
Wall Street Journal
The Stimulus Delusion
Popular delusions are always debunked, but rarely before they do a lot of harm. The ancient physician Galen believed that bloodletting, the forced removal of…
Blog
The Unemployment Discrimination Myth
The defunct American Jobs Act, which Hans skewered so well a while back, contains a provision to end “discrimination against the unemployed.” Apparently, there…
Wall Street Journal
A Plan to Chill Employment
What are the best two ways to maintain unemployment? First, forbid people from working. Then pay them not to work. Maryland may soon get a…
Wall Street Journal
Occupy 14th Street
Wall Street Journal
Clean Air’s Dirty Residue
A lot has been made of recent court filings in which the Environmental Protection Agency suggested that it needed 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate…
Wall Street Journal
Stimulus Slows Our Economy
Why does government stimulus spending fail? When considering the success of economic programs, the 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat urged us to look at both…
Wall Street Journal
Obama the Greek
Greece is in economic meltdown. Its economy has become so biased towards the public sector that it is now literally unsustainable. It cannot afford to…
Wall Street Journal
All Hail President Blair!
This column was written before the president’s Thursday night speech on job creation, but that matters little. The principle behind Obama’s speech — that government…
National Review
What the President Should Say Tonight
National Review
Needed: Budget Reforms to Save Money Into the Future
National Review
Do We Really Need a National Weather Service?
CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray knows that up-to-the-minute weather information is too crucial to leave in the hands of government. He argues that…
National Review
Do We Really Need a National Weather Service?
As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, news stations bombard our televisions with constant updates from the National Hurricane Center. While Americans ought…
National Review
Forget Corporate Jets. Government Limousines Show They’re Stealing You Blind
President Obama has made a big deal out of corporate jets. Apparently they are a symbol not of success but of greed. Yet even…
National Review
The Government War on Young Enterprise
Let’s start in Britain so we can see where we’re going. The first thing to know is…
Study
Stealing You Blind
Remember when we used to call government employees “public servants”? They’re servants no more—now they’re bureaucratic masters of the universe, claiming inflated salaries and early…
Townhall
The War on Lemonade
America is a country founded on entrepreneurship and free enterprise. That’s why one of its most enduring childhood traditions is the lemonade stand. It teaches…
Hot Air
London rioter: “We’re just showing the rich people that we can do what we want”
Hot Air
The Growth Agenda and Its Enemies
Even President Obama now seems to realize that rescuing America from its financial crisis requires getting Americans back to work. What he doesn’t seem to…
Citation
Iain Murray on WMAL Morning Majority
The US government could cut up to a dozen agencies without hurting the country, says Iain Murray, vice president for strategy of the Center for…
National Review
When Obama Hands You Lemons…
Washington Examiner
Morning Examiner: Democrats Shut Down FAA Over Morgantown Air Pork
Washington Examiner
It’s for the Children
The government robber barons justify themselves by telling you that big government is for your own good or, even better, “it’s for the children!” What…
Washington Examiner
President Obama Doesn’t Know the First Thing About Economics
As the Oscar buzz surrounding actress Meryl Streep keeps growing — thanks to her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, it’s worth remembering one of the real…
Blog
Stealing You Blind: Some Solutions to Over-Government
The central theme of my new book Stealing You Blind is that America is over-governed – at federal, state, and local level (there’s a…
Washington Examiner
Time to Re-Privatize Fire Departments
National Review
Highway Robbery
National Review
A Training Manual for Right-Sizing Government
Attempting to reduce the size of government program-by-program is almost certainly a fool’s errand. With a trillion-dollar deficit looming every year, ending earmarks or finding…
National Review
Bush Years Imposed Crushing Regulatory Burdens
Among the biggest lies told by liberals over the past few years is that the administration of President George W. Bush was some sort of…
National Review
Bureaucrats Are Stealing Americans Blind
Daily Caller
10 Questions with ‘Stealing You Blind’ Author Iain Murray
News Max
Book: Red Tape, Druggie Monkeys Bankrupting US
News Max
Government Pay Raises–It’s an Inside Con Job
Washington Examiner
The New Robber Barons
Blog
Stealing You Blind: The Fate of Greece
Rioters have taken to the streets in the Greek capital of Athens. While not as unusual an occurrence as it is in Athens, Georgia,…
Washington Examiner
Condemning Our Children to Live in ‘Greece’
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its latest edition of the Long-Term Budget Outlook, and it makes for grim reading. The assessment needs to…
Blog
A Definition of Unsustainable: The Long-Term Budget Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office has released its latest edition of the Long-Term Budget Outlook, and it makes for grim reading. Federal debt is currently…
Blog
Stealing You Blind: Plans for Future Theft
One of the themes of Stealing You Blind is how public sector unions have worked with politicians to organize an industrial-scale transfer of wealth…
Washington Examiner
Overdrawn at the Ideas ATM
President Obama recently blamed today’s high unemployment on… automation. Yes, you heard at right. He singled out automatic teller machines (ATMs), which he…
Blog
Shovel-Ready Was Never Shovel-Ready
President Obama has belatedly realized that the “shovel-ready projects” he touted so much in his stimulus bill two years ago were anything but: “Shovel-ready…
Blog
A Modest Proposal to Add Jobs and Reduce Injuries
Blog
Stealing You Blind: Drugging Monkeys on Your Dime
Washington Examiner
Let’s Face the Truth: The Stimulus and Bailouts Failed
You’d think last Friday’s terrible jobs numbers would cause honest elected officials to admit that their economic policies have failed. They would tell the American…
Washington Examiner
Nobody for Commerce Secretary
In choosing John Bryson as his nominee to be the next U.S. secretary of commerce, President Obama has chosen a perfect representative of our new…
Blog
NFL, Players in Court Today
Today is a crucial day in the ongoing labor dispute between the NFL and the supposedly disbanded players’ union, the NFLPA as they return to…
Washington Examiner
Deregulation Now!
Today’s much weaker than expected employment numbers show that the president’s agenda of more regulation and increased spending has undoubtedly failed. However much…
Blog
Deregulatory Baby Steps
In a welcome move, the White House announced this morning that a review of regulations by government departments had found 30 (count 'em) regulations…
Washington Examiner
Unsportsmanlike Conduct On The NFL Players Union
Today, only 7 percent of private sector workers belong to a union. Union membership has plummeted as unionized companies have become less competitive, in…
Blog
The Loony Left Era
The Economist has this to say about the NLRB’s pursuit of Boeing: The NLRB is an autonomous body, but its board members are appointed…
Blog
Trade Week: Why I Learned to Hate Civilization
When I first played the strategy game Civilization -- on an Amiga computer in the early 1990s -- I was instantly hooked. I was a…
Blog
NFL Case Illustrates Power of Unions
The NFL's protracted labor dispute with The Union Formerly Known As The NFL Players' Association (TUFKATNFLPA) turned another corner yesterday. An Appellate Court ruling granted…
Blog
Trade Week: Fair Trade Isn’t Fair
As I passed by the Commerce Department on my way in to work this morning, I saw the bureaucrats had erected a banner for…
Blog
Time to Recharter Executive Agencies
Several government agencies are mightier today than traditional departments like the Treasury. For instance, the EPA is one of the major regulatory bodies and…
Real Clear Markets
The NLRB Overreaches – Once Again
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has gone lawsuit crazy. With the U.S. House of Representatives now under Republican control, the Board is now…
Blog
The Policy Side of the Royal Wedding
Real Clear Markets
Union Retreat May Mean no More Slush Funds
The news that the Firefighters’ union is going to stop spending money at the Federal level to defend its privileges at state and local level is…
Real Clear Markets
The Midnight Ride of Standard & Poor’s
Three cheers for Standard & Poor’s (S&P). On Monday, the rating agency issued a critical warning that America’s debt burden is growing too great. By…
NCPA
Regulation Day
National Center for Policy Analysis discusses regulation costs with Iain Murray and references Wayne Crews's study. Every year we are reminded how much…
Blog
Debt Warning Should Force Decision on America’s Future
Study
Panel Transcript: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
MARK KRIKORIAN: Good morning. My name is Mark Krikorian. I’m executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank here in town that…
NCPA
There Is No ‘Regulation Day’ to Remind Us How Much They Cost
Every year we are reminded how much money the government filches from us on Tax Day. However, there is no equivalent ‘Regulation Day’ to remind…
Cato At Liberty
If There Were An Annual ‘Regulation Day’
Cato at Liberty points to the writings on regulation of experts Iain Murray and Wayne Crews. As Iain Murray points out at National…
Blog
A Definition of Classical Liberalism?
Blog
Paul Ryan’s Budget Proposal is Half the Answer
This morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) unveiled a bold proposal to trim trillions off America’s bloated budget. It represents the only serious proposal out there…
Cato At Liberty
Three Lessons From Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima is at last approaching stable, if still serious, condition. The struggles the Japanese have faced there, on top…
Cato At Liberty
As Japan Crisis Unfolds, Energy Secretary Steven Chu Fails Nuclear and Leadership Test
With reactors at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear plant in danger of a meltdown, the world waits with bated breath for the outcome. Interestingly, physicists, the…
Daily Caller
How a moratorium on nuclear power could stop Obama’s clean energy agenda in its tracks
Fox Business
Japan Crisis Shouldn’t Derail Nuclear Movement in U.S.
Fox Business
Japan Crisis Shouldn’t Derail Nuclear Movement in U.S.
Fox Business
Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: Where Is Steven Chu?
Anyone who has done a little reading on the Japan nuclear crisis will know that we’re facing a less dangerous situation than Three Mile Island.
Washington Times
Inside the Beltway
Washington Times discusses nuclear meltdowns in Japan with Iain Murray. “Either Secretary Chu is so beholden to the ‘green’ movement that he feels…
Washington Times
What’s the catch with NOAA’s catch-shares program?
A year ago, Daniel Bubb worked as a fisherman in Gloucester, Mass., operating a fishing business with more than 60 employees. Government intervention has a…
Washington Times
What’s the Catch With NOAA’s Catch-Shares Program?
A year ago, Daniel Bubb worked as a fisherman in Gloucester, Mass., operating a fishing business with more than 60 employees. Government intervention has…
Washington Times
All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train
Global-warming alarmists often portray climate scientists as poorly paid academics whose judgment is impervious to the influence of money. This seems strange given…
Washington Times
Obama Wastes Yucca Mountain
As America’s nuclear power stations begin to show their age, the problem of what to do with all their waste has become much more pressing.
Journal Sentinel
Madison Fight Remains in National Spotlight
Journal Sentinel
Madison Fight Remains in National Spotlight
The Journal Sentinel highlights CEI's Iain Murray and Vincent Vernuccio's article on unions for the Washington Times. Washington Times opinion writers Iain Murray and…
Journal Sentinel
Fixed Labor Game is Ending in Wisconsin
Across the nation, public-sector unions realize the game is up, and they aren’t happy about it. They’re doing everything in their considerable power to stop…
Journal Sentinel
TSA Union Power Grab
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for taxpayers and airport travelers – but a good one for government employee unions. As if the…
Orange County Register
Deceptive Obama Budget Still Bloated
The Orange Country Register discusses President Obama's deceptive budget with Iain Murray. "The president is pulling a fast one on the public when he…
International Liberty
The Federal Bureaucracy: Even More Bloated When You Count the “Shadow” Workforce
International Liberty references Iain Murray's Nationa Review article to discuss the size of the federal workforce. Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
International Liberty
Leviathan
How many Americans work in government? That’s a difficult question to answer. Officially, as of 2009, the federal government employed 2.8 million individuals out of…
Study
Counteract Politicization of Federal Science Policy
Liberate to Stimulate Index The federal politicization of science in many areas is harming science itself. Ethics rules and advisory panel guidelines…
Study
Resist New Burdens on the Transportation Sector
Liberate to Stimulate Index The transportation industries—airline, railroad, shipping, and trucking—are networks involving both a flow and a grid. The flow element…
Study
Reform the Transportation Security Administration
Liberate to Stimulate Index Reform of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is long overdue—as the recent passenger backlash against both the TSA’s…
Study
Develop New Approaches to Preserve Ocean Resources
Liberate to Stimulate Index The world’s fisheries face severe decline. Because many of the world’s ocean resources are not “owned,” they tend…
International Liberty
Politicized Science Costs Us All
After a 21-month delay, White House science adviser John Holdrenhas finally issued a four-page memo on scientific integrity in government. The guidelines demonstrate an intractable…
International Liberty
For the TSA, all risks are created equal
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on…
International Liberty
Global Warming Goes Gaga
It’s the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who…
International Liberty
The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
International Liberty
Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado
A lot of otherwise sensible people have been calling recently for massive government investment in alternative energy research, arguing that it is the only solution…
Study
International Fisheries
Full Document Available in PDF The history of fisheries management in the United States largely…
Hot Air
Why the feds are selling GM stock at a loss
First, the government is what is known as a “motivated seller.” By offering such a low stock price, the administration is essentially admitting that it…
Study
An Issue of Science and Economics
Full Document Available in PDF Abundant and affordable energy is one of the great boons of…
Right Wing News
Little Green Idiocy: Taxpayers Taking A Bath On GM Is Great News!
Right Wing News references Iain Murray's Daily Caller article on General Motor's IPO. Ironically, Johnson knows so little about business that he doesn’t realize…
Right Wing News
GM selling at a loss should tell you something
When a government sells stock in a company, it is usually trying to maximize short-term revenue. Therefore, the share price is normally pegged at what…
NCPA
High-Speed-Train Wreck
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses revamped rail systems with Iain Murray and Marc Scribner. The Obama administration and high-speed rail proponents…
Trib Live
High-speed train wreck
Appeared in: The Bellingham Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader, Athens Banner-Herald, The Sacramento Bee, Great Falls Tribune, Fort Worth…