Mr. Murray is Vice President for Strategy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Murray also directs the Center for Economic Freedom. He is the author of the best-selling books, “The Really Inconvenient Truths” and “Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You.” He has written extensively on free markets and the environment, labor policy, finance, the EU, and trade. He tweets at @ismurray and is a Contributing Editor at Instapundit.com.
Before coming to CEI, Iain was Director of Research at the Statistical Assessment Service. A former civil servant in the United Kingdom, Iain immigrated to the U.S. in 1997 and remains a British citizen. He holds an Master of Business Administration from the University of London and an Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. He is married with two children and lives in Northern Virginia.
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News
Supreme Court Ends Chevron Doctrine that Favored Regulatory Agencies in Court
The U.S. Supreme Court today overruled itself on a longstanding, controversial doctrine that gave regulatory agencies an unfair advantage in court – the so-called “Chevron…
Supreme Court Disappoints on Funding/Powers Question in Ruling in CFPB Case
The Supreme Court today issued a disappointing ruling in CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America, a lawsuit challenging the unchecked funding of…
Leftwing conspiracy theories about 1971 “Powell memo” debunked in new CEI report
A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report debunks a leftwing conspiracy theory that free market interests seek a “corporate domination of America” (as Greenpeace put…
Blog
CEI has warned about debanking for 20+ Years – We were right
- By: Iain Murray
Over the last week, millions of Americans were exposed to the idea that their government has been encouraging banks to withdraw financial services from American…
Want higher air fares? Overregulate credit cards
- By: Iain Murray
This morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Transportation are holding a joint hearing “investigating” airline and credit card reward programs.
New UK report recommends ‘rules about rules’ for regulation
- By: Iain Murray
In a new report, the Center for Policy Studies in the UK surveys that nation’s regulatory landscape – and doesn’t like what it sees.
Op-Eds/Articles
The Daily Economy
The Debanking Craze Reveals Everything Wrong with the Administrative State
- By: Iain Murray
After an appearance by financier Marc Andreessen on the Joe Rogan Podcast, Elon Musk’s X exploded with indignation that tech entrepreneurs were being debanked owing to…
Law and Liberty
Milton Friedman’s Revenge
- By: Iain Murray
It’s rapidly becoming the received wisdom that an important reason President Trump won the 2024 election was because inflation matters. Too many hard-working…
The Daily Economy
Why Fewer Are Trying to Climb the Corporate Ladder
- By: Iain Murray
Someone once told me that my career fitted the dictionary definition of the word – a headlong rush, usually downhill. For most people, however, the…
Studies
Adam Smith’s guide to life, loveliness, and the modern economy
- By: Christopher Culp, Fred L. Smith, Jr., Iain Murray, Jeremy Lott, John Berlau, Kent Lassman, Ryan Young, Stone Washington
Introduction: Going strong at 300 Ryan Young This essay collection celebrates Adam Smith’s 300th birthday. He is best known for being the first modern economist,…
Threats Then and Threats Now
Executive summary In 1971 Lewis Powell, a prominent Republican lawyer who would go on to serve on the Supreme Court, wrote a memo warning about…
Terrible Tech 2.0
View Full Document as PDF Executive Summary If you are looking for bipartisanship in Washington, D.C., the technology policy sector may be your…
Citations
The-A-Word
People can be authoritarian about anything. That includes liberals and freelance busting. This Q&A with Luke Conway explains why.
- By: Iain Murray
The-A-Word cited CEI’s expert on the rise of authoritarianism I was thinking about all this when Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian…
RealClear Markets
Global Regulators Want To Hamstring AI Innovation
- By: Iain Murray
RealClear Markets cited CEI on technological innovation Like many efforts at economic planning, subverting market forces — the forces that drive creative destruction — driving…
Daily Caller
Supreme Court Slaps Down Challenge That Could Have Gutted Financial Regulatory Agency
- By: Iain Murray
CEI’s Iain Murray was cited in Daily Caller on the recent Supreme Court CFPB ruling: Iain Murray, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s …
Regulatory Comments
Comments on Application Of The National Railroad Passenger Corporation Under 49 U.S.C. § 24308(E)
- By: Iain Murray
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), I respectfully submit this comment letter for the Board’s consideration in the FD 36496 proceeding. Founded in…
Comments to the CMA in re: Facebook/GIPHY merger
- By: Iain Murray
Submitted to the Inquiry via [email protected], 1 September 2021 Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments in the matter of the Competition and…
CEI Comments on Intermediate Bodies Rule
- By: Iain Murray
Dear Director Rosenfield, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I respectfully submit the following comments. Founded in 1984, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is a…
Podcast Episodes
Free Markets and the Common Good with Iain Murray
This week we cover fake environmentalism and the need to build, a look at policymaking inside the National People’s Congress in China, the new normal...
Threats to Economic Freedom, Then and Now with Iain Murray
This week we talk about recycled Legos, socially responsible pension funds, pessimistic views about politics, and a special immigration visa for microchip experts. Our interview...