Check Out Tonight's Stossel: What a Wonderful World!
Tonight's Stossel show on Fox Business is based on the theme of "What a Wonderful World!":
The media tell us life is getting worse. As usual, they miss the big picture.
This is a wonderful world…and it's getting better!
We're living longer. This week, Stossel talks to Sonia Arrison who says that, because of amazing advances in medical technology, the first person who will live to be 150 years old has already been born. And soon 150 years will be the AVERAGE.
Innovation makes our lives better. Swedish public health professor Hans Rosling tells Stossel why. His video that celebrates the miracle of the washing machine has been viewed ten million times.
Matt Ridley explains how "ideas having sex" is a reason the world is getting better. Sounds inappropriate, but he's right!
Even though our government's regulations become more burdensome on a daily basis, some entrepreneurs find innovative ways around the regs. Two entrepreneurs founded Blueseed, a boat that will sit 12 miles offshore and house foreign innovators who don't want to wait 35 years for a visa … but want to share their ideas with Silicon Valley.
And finally, an entrepreneur offering a reward for success says a prize leads to better innovation than government central planning. He's running competitions to see who can land a robot on the moon, who can invent a 100 mpg car, and a device that gives you better medical diagnoses than your doctor might.
Reason runs Stossel's columns every Thursday (his latest, on what business owners have to fear from Obamacare, is here) and we're happy to have staffers featured regularly on his show.
For more on Stossel, which airs on Fox Business Thursdays at 10pm ET and several times over the weekend, go here.
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John Stossel or Freddie Mercury.
I look better in sequins.
but I live in NY; wearing sequins made me look like an insurance salesman.
I was about to post the same sentiment...
Is a gay porn-star-stache on a straight man the new libertarian identifier? Sorta like the monocle and top-hat?
Had to do it.
150? Just a kid.
And soon 150 years will be the AVERAGE.
But the retirement age will still be 67.
hey, I tried to address part of this. You think it's coincidence I have not been seen since the grandma-over-the-cliff ads?
Keep government out of my Medicare. And get off of my lawn.
It'll still be 50 for me. Just you try to change that you Hitler-worshipping, child-hating, reich-wing rethuglican!
When will they create Blueweed, a boat that sits 12 miles off the coast where people can engage in the forbidden? I shouldn't have to hop from Vegas to Amsterdam to combine two vices.
You don't need to, just go to Amsterdam.
Love me some Stossel. Why are he and the Judge banished to the kids table at Fox Business?
Stossel should be asked to write his own alt text for this photo.
And soon 150 years will be the AVERAGE.
The global average?? My B.S. detector is going off at full blast here.
Also, define "soon".
It's relative.
Until we can stop neuronal loss and dementia, this is utter fantasy. Why live to 150, when you will spend about half of that time with progressive neurologic impairment?
It's for the children.
No, I have no idea what that meant.
Washing machines should be handed out via global lottery.
Why am I watching Stossel struggle to hand write a graph when Hans has it on computer?
That animated graph looks like a low-rent video for "99 Luftballons".
"If you're poor and stupid, you die."
When said with this guy's accent, that sounds like a threat.
Sonia is dangling a second kidney in front of me so I will buy her book.
Vulcans live to be over 150 and look what they achieved: logical women.
The dead are the true 99%.
I so plan to pirate that entrepeneur ship. In international waters, the U.S. can't touch me.
Blue Seed? Why not call it the Idea Hydroponics.
John Stossel: Deny student visas and stop immigrants from stealing our education.
Ideas having sex? Those ideas better be at least 18 years old.
I don't want a guided missile going through my colon.
One idea leaves the other idea and their baby idea and all of the sudden I'm forced to subsidize all these bastard ideas.
Ridley is a Borg!
Presumptuous. You don't know how often Stossel has salmonella.
Peter Diamandis. I just know 007 is going to be chasing him out of that studio any minute now.
Solo transaltanic flight. Not very marketable.
I hope they tested the best oil spill cleanup by spilling a shitload of oil into the ocean.
Shouldn't this be titled It's a Wonderful Life?
The Lindbergh incentive was a pretty good one. They took his baby and refused to give it back until he flew the Spirit of 76 across the ocean.
And when they wouldn't give the baby back, he renamed the plane the Spirit of St. Louis or whatever.