Iain Murray

3 days ago | cei.org | Iain Murray |Sam Kazman

It’s time to double down on National Donut Day. As Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. begins pushing his Make America Healthy Again campaign, we suggest a protest against the idea, growing in our nation’s capital, that we can’t have nice things when it comes to food. National Donut Day, the first Friday in June, began in 1938 to honor the Salvation Army volunteers who fried donuts for troops in World War I.

6 days ago | themj.co.uk | Iain Murray

FINANCE The basics matter Iain Murray says: 'Finalising the accounts, meeting reporting requirements and maintaining a grip on budgets are not just box-ticking exercises – but essential for good governance and underpin resilience.' By Iain Murray | 02 June 2025 SHARE In the build-up to the Spending Review announcement on 11 June, it is only natural we might hold out some hope about what's coming for public services that continue to operate under immense financial pressure.

1 week ago | cei.org | Iain Murray |Kent Lassman |Ryan Young

President Trump’s Liberation Day trade tariff policies are failing, just as economists predicted. What can stop the tariff-imposed pain of higher prices, fewer choices, and risk to businesses and jobs? A new CEI report by Kent Lassman, Ryan Young, and Iain Murray offers Congress a blueprint for reclaiming a say in U.S. trade policy. “A trade war, like all war, destroys,” said Kent Lassman, CEI president and report co-author.

1 week ago | cei.org | Iain Murray |Kent Lassman |Ryan Young

President Donald Trump threw the world trading system into disarray with his “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2, 2025. The principles behind the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1947, where 23 nations agreed to minimize barriers to trade, were abandoned. In its place was a system of baseline tariffs and “reciprocal tariffs” (purported to reflect the level of tariffs, non-tariff barriers, and “cheating” by other nations against American exports) on goods entering the United States.

3 weeks ago | thedailyeconomy.org | Iain Murray

Some years ago, the singer and activist Bono shocked many of his supporters when he told them, “Aid is just a stopgap…Commerce [and] entrepreneurial capitalism take more people out of poverty than aid. We need Africa to become an economic powerhouse.” Trade is a vital part of that entrepreneurial application of commerce as it connects entrepreneurs to global markets, dramatically increasing their reach and allowing for specialization and economies of scale.