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
EU’s Massive Fine Against Meta Could End Up Harming European Consumers
The European Union announced a new enforcement actions today against Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The action penalizes Meta for data transfers that…
Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Section 230, Leaving Protections for Third Party Content in Place
The Supreme Court today in Google v. Gonzales and Twitter v. Taamneh declined to rule on the meaning of Section 230 of the…
Supreme Court to Hear Lawsuit Challenging Unfair ‘Chevron Doctrine’
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging the Chevron doctrine, a policy requiring courts to defer to regulatory agencies in lawsuits…
Blog
Senate committee yells ‘all aboard!’ for controversial Railway Safety Act
- By: Iain Murray
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved the Railway Safety Act this morning, with all Democrats and Republican Sens. J.D. Vance (OH) and Eric Schmitt…
Large Language Models are Great Tools but Lousy Researchers
- By: Iain Murray
Climate skeptic Newtuber Tony Heller asked ChatGPT some questions about the climate and found it lacking. It gave the sort of answers you would…
After Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Merge?
- By: Iain Murray
Did antitrust ideology play a role in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the slight contagion that destabilized the global banking system thereafter?…
Op-Eds/Articles
National Review
U.K. Laws Are Harming American Companies — U.S. Authorities Pleased
- By: Iain Murray
America has made it almost 250 years independent of its colonial master, Great Britain. Now, in one area at least, you might as well tear…
National Review
The Free-Market Case Needs More Than Just Morality
- By: Iain Murray
George Leef and Mike Munger are right (of course) that we need to make the moral case for capitalism. Yet I would…
Inside Sources
East Palestine Derailment Reveals a Lot of What Is Wrong With Our Politics
- By: Iain Murray
The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous material in East Palestine, Ohio, is a social and environmental disaster that can potentially ruin lives…
Studies
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…
How Repeal of #NeverNeeded Regulations Can Help Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
A number of factors are combining to stress the American economy in the spring of 2020—the global and domestic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, an…
Democratic Capitalism: Why Political and Economic Freedom Need Each Other
- By: Iain Murray
Is capitalism destroying democracy? It is an old question that political thinkers have long wrestled with.
Citations
American Institute for Economic Research
“The FTC Should Answer Its Call of Duty to Gamers”
- By: Iain Murray
Dr. Gary Galles, Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, argues that the FTC is engaging in “antitrust protectionism” while challenging Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision.
The American Institue for Economic Research
The FTC should answer its Call of Duty to Gamers
- By: Iain Murray
The American Institute for Economic Research cites Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray on the Microsoft-Activision merger: The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray has also …
American Institute for Economic Research
The FTC should answer its Call of Duty to Gamers
- By: Iain Murray
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray has also noted several other important problems with the assertion that the Microsoft-Activision merger would harm consumers. He has collected…