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Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Faces Needless Challenges

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Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Faces Needless Challenges

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/23/2022

Emboldened antitrust bureaucrats on both sides of the Atlantic are flexing their muscles with challenges to Microsoft’s planned acquisition of the game developer Activision, maker…

Eye on FTC

Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Statist Bias?

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Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Statist Bias?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/12/2022

I recently asked the ChatGPT AI to “write an essay critiquing the Biden administration’s trade policy.” This is what I got: The…

Innovation

We Need to Pay More Attention to AI

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We Need to Pay More Attention to AI

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 11/08/2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important emerging technologies today. It has the potential to revolutionize many industries and sectors, including health care,…

Innovation

The Founding Fathers and Free Trade

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The Founding Fathers and Free Trade

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/20/2022

There is an ongoing small cottage industry of historical revisionism aimed at showing that America since its founding was friendly to protectionism and that this…

Trade and International

CEI Leads Coalition Opposing Increased Government Interference in Rail Operations

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CEI Leads Coalition Opposing Increased Government Interference in Rail Operations

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/13/2022

CEI and 21 other organizations and individuals have signed a letter opposing the misleadingly named Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act, which would…

Transportation

Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Stock Is an Important Reminder of How Capitalism Works

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Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Stock Is an Important Reminder of How Capitalism Works

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/05/2022

The tech world was shaken by the recent news that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, had bought up nearly one of every 10…

Antitrust

Deregulation is Key to Building a Broad-Based Economy

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Deregulation is Key to Building a Broad-Based Economy

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/31/2022

Critics of free market economic policy often point to declines in manufacturing employment or, worse, to the “hollowing-out” of the American middle class as evidence…

Capitalism

Reciprocal Switching Is a Bad Idea at a Bad Time

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Reciprocal Switching Is a Bad Idea at a Bad Time

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/10/2022

The Surface Transportation Board has resurrected a bad idea it considered in 2012 and 2016—mandated reciprocal switching for freight railroads. For background, you can’t do…

Transportation

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority Is Becoming a Global Problem

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Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority Is Becoming a Global Problem

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/21/2021

When British supporters of Brexit talked of “global Britain,” they probably didn’t have in mind British bureaucrats dictating to the world how businesses should be…

Antitrust

Happy Constitution Day!

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Happy Constitution Day!

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/17/2021

When I was a civil servant in the United Kingdom, I had a friend who worked at the Ministry of Defence. Part of his duties…

Legal

UK’s Attempt to Block a Merger Between American Firms Could Cripple Innovation

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UK’s Attempt to Block a Merger Between American Firms Could Cripple Innovation

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/02/2021

As I explain in both an op-ed and regulatory comments submitted yesterday, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s version…

Antitrust

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Shows Much of What’s Wrong with Congress

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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Shows Much of What’s Wrong with Congress

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 08/04/2021

Although it now looks unlikely, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D_NY) wants the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act, popularly known as the bipartisan infrastructure bill,…

Subsidies and Bailouts

What Do We Want from Our Platforms?

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What Do We Want from Our Platforms?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 06/16/2021

Two recently introduced House bills seek to restructure antitrust law, supposedly to tackle purported abuses by “big tech” firms. They aim to change how the…

Antitrust

Is the Biden Administration Socialist?

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Is the Biden Administration Socialist?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/29/2021

One of the points I make in The Socialist Temptation is that today’s “democratic socialists” don’t really know what they mean by socialism. Nor…

Capitalism

Secretary Pete Scores an Own Goal

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Secretary Pete Scores an Own Goal

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/31/2021

It should have been an open goal. Everyone agrees that the nation’s highways need more funding. Everyone agrees that the gas tax has passed its…

Transportation

Debate over Vaccination Passports Gathers Steam in Europe and United Kingdom

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Debate over Vaccination Passports Gathers Steam in Europe and United Kingdom

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/30/2021

The concept of a “vaccination passport” was raised in the European Union (EU) early in the pandemic. EU documents show a timetable for discussion of…

Healthcare

Adam Smith Slavery Controversy Can be Settled by his Writings

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Adam Smith Slavery Controversy Can be Settled by his Writings

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/09/2021

According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, the grave of Adam Smith in his home city of Edinburgh has been included in a citywide review as…

Capitalism

UK Court Ruling on Uber will Mean Fewer, More Expensive Rides, and Fewer Jobs

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UK Court Ruling on Uber will Mean Fewer, More Expensive Rides, and Fewer Jobs

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/19/2021

Today, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled on an important question as to whether certain drivers who work with Uber are entitled to…

Labor and Employment

The New CFPB Leadership Should Avoid Rate Caps on Small Dollar Loans

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The New CFPB Leadership Should Avoid Rate Caps on Small Dollar Loans

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/03/2021

With new leadership at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), there is rising concern that there will be renewed attempts to cap effective interest rates…

Financial Regulation

The Danger in Blurring the Private and Public Boundaries with Government Regulation

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The Danger in Blurring the Private and Public Boundaries with Government Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray, Jessica Melugin
  • 01/11/2021

The recent decisions of many technology companies to remove users and customers from their platforms have deeply divided Americans. Many Americans feel censored and discriminated…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Amazon’s Private Labels Don’t Threaten Competition

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Amazon’s Private Labels Don’t Threaten Competition

  • By: Iain Murray, Jessica Melugin
  • 12/23/2020

A recent Wall Street Journal article raises concerns about Amazon’s generics offerings and the online retailer’s business practices surrounding diaper sales. In evaluating…

Antitrust

Some Frequently Asked Questions about Socialism

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Some Frequently Asked Questions about Socialism

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/10/2020

During my virtual “tour” for the release of my book, The Socialist Temptation, certain questions came up regularly. I have already set out my…

Capitalism

Forty Years of Freedom: Rail Deregulation Worked

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Forty Years of Freedom: Rail Deregulation Worked

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 10/14/2020

Forty years ago today, President Carter signed the Staggers Act, which deregulated the American freight rail industry. As CEI has long maintained, this…

Business and Government

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Court-Packing Isn’t the Left’s Only Threat to the Supreme Court

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 10/08/2020

The Left’s threat to the pack the Court by expanding the number of justices seems to be unpopular. But they have proposed other policies that…

Capitalism

All Levels of Government Need a Top-to-Bottom Review of Transportation Policy

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All Levels of Government Need a Top-to-Bottom Review of Transportation Policy

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/02/2020

Evidence is mounting that mass transit played a major role in spreading COVID-19. According to analytics firm TrendMacro, the only factor “that seems to make…

Automobiles and Roads

Are Scandinavian Countries Socialist?

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Are Scandinavian Countries Socialist?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 08/25/2020

Are modern Scandinavian countries actually socialist? This question must be asked because it is a common rhetorical device of “democratic socialist” politicians to wave away…

Business and Government

The Socialist Temptation: Why Don’t People Remember the Horrors of Socialism?

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The Socialist Temptation: Why Don’t People Remember the Horrors of Socialism?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 08/14/2020

Why are people still attracted to socialism when its history is plain for all to see? One reason is that those who proclaimed the dawn…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

The Socialist Temptation: Socialism and American Values

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The Socialist Temptation: Socialism and American Values

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 07/28/2020

The way to reach people is by making sure a policy accorded with their values. In his new book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray argues…

Business and Government

America’s Cultural Revolution

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America’s Cultural Revolution

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 07/17/2020

In his forthcoming book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray talks about how socialism in China produced the Cultural Revolution. The text of the book was…

Business and Government

Infrastructure Bill’s Non-Serious Nature Is a Serious Problem

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Infrastructure Bill’s Non-Serious Nature Is a Serious Problem

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 06/30/2020

America’s current surface transportation authorization, the FAST Act, expires at the end of September. Rather than reauthorizing it, however, House Democrats have introduced the INVEST…

Rail and Mass Transit

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