Archive for John Stossel

John Stossel is the host of Stossel on Fox Business and the author of Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know is Wrong, now in paperback. Copyright 2012 by JFS Productions, Inc. Distributed by Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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Tear Down the Stop Signs!

Day after day in Warren, Michigan, people wait in a long line to pay traffic fines. Many are there because police say they didn’t come to a full stop at a stop sign. Often the policeman saying that is Officer David Kanapsky. On a “20/20” segment earlier this year viewers heard a motorist in court [...]

1Dec2008 | | 5 comments | Continued

Bless the Speculators

“I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and, if so, how much it has affected the price of a barrel of oil. There’s a lot of things out there that need a lot more transparency and, consequently, oversight.” Those are [...]

1Nov2008 | | 1 comment | Continued

Legalize All Drugs

Reading the New York Post‘s popular Page Six gossip page recently, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: “ABC’S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs.” I had attended a Marijuana [...]

1Oct2008 | | 8 comments | Continued

Government Stifles the Wisdom of Crowds

Who will be our next president? If you want an accurate guess, don’t ask the pundits. Go where people put their money where their mouths are. Intrade.com, for example. It’s a prediction market, basically a futures market like those where people bet on the future price of oil, gold, and pork bellies. But at Intrade, [...]

1Sep2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Conceit of the Regulators

Unless the government watches closely, the airlines will kill you. That seems to be what many reporters and politicians believe. “The result of inspection failures and enforcement failure [by the Federal Aviation Administration] has meant that aircraft have flown unsafe, un-airworthy and at risk of lives,” says Representative James Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation [...]

1Jul2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Bullies

“We cannot use force.” That was my response when a lawyer shouted at me, “You media types are bullies, too!” We were arguing about my April 4 Wall Street Journal op-ed that called class-action and securities lawyers bullies and parasites who enrich themselves through extortion. It’s legal extortion, but extortion nonetheless. These aggressive lawyers and [...]

1Jun2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Influence-Peddling

Since the New York Times published its page-one story alleging an inappropriate link between Senator John McCain and telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman, we’ve heard much more about the evil of “influence-peddling.” The day the Times story ran, Senator Barack Obama debated Hillary Clinton, saying, “Washington has become a place where good ideas go to die. [...]

1May2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Presidents Can’t Manage the Economy

The presidential candidates have been repeatedly asked how they would “manage the economy.” With the exception of Ron Paul, every candidate has accepted the premise that this is something the president of the United States should do. Or can do. Nonsense. Democrats act like the president is national economic manager. Republicans pay lip service to [...]

1Apr2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Who’s Afraid of Prosperity?

Should we worry that the people of China, India, and other undeveloped countries are getting richer? Apparently so, according to the newspapers and the “experts” they quote. They don’t come right out and say that global prosperity is bad for us. Instead they say, as the New York Times recently said, “As development rolls across [...]

1Mar2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Don’t Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet

Recently on “20/20” I said “give me a break” to Al Gore for claiming that the global-warming debate is over and suggesting that all dissenters were in it for the money. I interviewed independent scientists who say Gore is wrong. Some people were relieved to finally hear the other side: “Thank you, thank you, thank [...]

1Jan2008 | | 1 comment | Continued

Medical Competition Works for Patients

Health-care costs overall have been rising faster than inflation, but not all medical costs are skyrocketing. In a few pockets of medicine, costs are down while quality is up. Dr. Brian Bonanni has an unusual medical practice. His office is open Saturdays. He e-mails his patients and gives them his cell-phone number. “I need to [...]

1Dec2007 | | 0 comments | Continued

Dead Men Farming

By now you’ve probably heard that a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report states: From 1999 through 2005, the USDA “paid $1.1 billion in farm payments in the names of 172,801 deceased individuals. . . . 40 percent went to those who had been dead for three or more years, and 19 percent to those [...]

1Nov2007 | | 0 comments | Continued

Freedom and Benevolence Go Together

I interviewed Michael Moore recently for a “20/20” special on health care. It’s refreshing to interview a leftist who proudly admits he’s a leftist. He told me that government should provide “food care” as well as health care and that big government would work if only the right people were in charge. Moore added, “I [...]

1Oct2007 | | 0 comments | Continued
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