John Stossel - Host and Creator, Stossel TV,

John Stossel

Host and Creator, Stossel TV

John Stossel is the host and creator of Stossel TV. The former host of Stossel on Reason, Fox Business' Stossel, and ABC's 20/20, he has won 19 Emmys and authored several best-sellers, most recently No, They Can't: Why Government Fails—But Individuals Succeed. He is also the author of a popular weekly column that is syndicated via Creators.

Latest from John Stossel

How Obama Creates Uncertainty and Paralyzes Growth

Obama should ask himself: "Would I start or expand a business without knowing what regulations or taxes government will impose next year?"

John Stossel | 6.7.2012 12:00 PM

How to Improve Life for American Workers

Employment rules appear to help workers. But they don't.

John Stossel | 5.31.2012 12:00 PM

Why Business's Desire for Profit Is a Good Thing

To get our money, businesses--if they can't look to the government for favors--need to give us what we want.

John Stossel | 5.24.2012 12:00 PM

Making Life Fair

Wealth disparity is not unfair-if it results from free exchange.

John Stossel | 5.17.2012 12:00 PM

Creating a Risk-Free World

Let's start treating people as though their bodies belong to them, not to a controlling and "protective" government.

John Stossel | 5.10.2012 12:00 PM

Why We're Losing

How free market ideas suffer from being counterintuitive

John Stossel | 5.8.2012 10:30 AM

Keeping Nature Exactly As Is…Forever

Once you decide nature is inherently healthy, moral and beautiful, the reasons to restrict human activity are endless.

John Stossel | 5.3.2012 9:00 AM

The Assault on Food

If we must control diet to balance the government's budget, will the health squad next ban skydiving and extramarital sex?

John Stossel | 4.26.2012 12:00 PM

The Economy Needs No Conductor

We spend too much time waiting for orders-and money-from Washington.

John Stossel | 4.19.2012 12:00 PM

Can Government Do Anything Well?

No one can be trusted to manage the economy.

John Stossel | 4.12.2012 12:00 PM

Let's Give the Fed Some Competition

The Federal Reserve prints so much money that since it opened its doors in 1914, the dollar has lost more than 90 percent of its value.

John Stossel | 4.5.2012 12:00 PM

John Stossel on the Successes of Freedom in Education

John Stossel and Paul Detrick | 4.1.2012 3:00 PM

John Stossel on the Successes of Freedom in Education

John Stossel and Paul Detrick | 4.1.2012 3:00 PM

Job Killers

Advocates of regulations don't acknowledge the law of unintended consequences.

John Stossel | 3.29.2012 12:00 PM

What Is Fair?

The idea that government can "make life fair" is intuitively appealing to people-at least until they think about it.

John Stossel | 3.22.2012 12:00 PM

Complex Societies Need Simple Laws

We need to end the orgy of rule-making at once and embrace the simple rules that true liberals like America's founders envisioned.

John Stossel | 3.15.2012 12:30 PM

Vulture Capitalism

The real evil bankers are the government cronies.

John Stossel | 3.8.2012 12:00 PM

What America Can Learn From Portugal's Drug War Reforms

The level of conflicts on the street are reduced. Drug-related robberies are reduced. And now the police are not the enemies of the consumers.

John Stossel | 3.1.2012 4:30 PM

Politicians Fiddle While Fiscal Crisis Looms

We must cut spending.

John Stossel | 2.23.2012 12:00 PM

Never Trust Government Numbers

Like most politicians, Obama misleads with his latest budget.

John Stossel | 2.16.2012 12:00 PM

Government Can't Make Us Happy

Even the staunchest proponents of government intervention to increase happiness admit that there's no relationship.

John Stossel | 2.9.2012 12:00 PM

Policing the World

We could save a lot of money if America adopted a policy designed for defense rather than policing the world.

John Stossel | 2.2.2012 12:00 PM

The Real State of the Union

What should Obama have said in his speech? Here's what John Stossel wishes he'd said.

John Stossel | 1.26.2012 12:00 PM

Don't Trust Your Instincts

Simple answers are satisfying, but often wrong.

John Stossel | 1.19.2012 7:00 AM

Putting Faith in Champions of Freedom, Not Politicians

It's a mistake to look for heroes in politics. It's too ugly a business.

John Stossel | 1.12.2012 12:00 PM

Ideas Have Sex, and We're Better for It

If government will just stay out of the bar, ideas will meet and mate and produce wonderful things.

John Stossel | 1.5.2012 12:00 PM

A Libertarian Year Ahead?

Freedom-lovers have a lot more work to do.

John Stossel | 12.29.2011 12:00 PM

Is Obamacare Stopping Businesses From Hiring?

Businesspeople certainly think so.

John Stossel | 12.22.2011 12:00 PM

Job Creators Fight Back

Tired of being pushed around, a group of CEOs are speaking out.

John Stossel | 12.15.2011 12:00 PM

America Is Just One Decade Away From Turning Into Greece

The Land of the Free moves steadily toward the cliff.

John Stossel | 12.8.2011 12:00 PM

How The Government's War on Street Vendors Keeps People Poor

Over-regulation eliminates paths to prosperity.

John Stossel | 12.1.2011 12:00 PM

Campus Speech Codes Are Bad For Higher Education

We should counter hateful speech with more words-not government force

John Stossel | 11.24.2011 12:30 PM

The FDA Kills Smokers

Banning e-cigarettes won't save lives.

John Stossel | 11.17.2011 12:00 PM

The FDA Kills

How government regulations raise prices and stifle medical innovations

John Stossel | 11.10.2011 10:30 AM

The Stupidity of "Buy American"

The case against economic protectionism

John Stossel | 11.3.2011 7:00 AM

School Competition Rescues Kids

The government's virtual monopoly over K-12 education has failed.

John Stossel | 10.27.2011 7:00 AM

Occupy Wall Street Is Half Right

The protestors are right to complain about crony capitalism.

John Stossel | 10.20.2011 12:00 PM

Government the Job Killer

Keep Washington out of the economy

John Stossel | 10.13.2011 12:00 PM

Government Makes Us Poor

The free market sparks innovation and creates wealth.

John Stossel | 10.6.2011 7:00 AM

Governments Don't Create Prosperity

The truth about economic growth

John Stossel | 9.29.2011 12:00 PM

Exciting Schools

Why our kids deserve a free market in education

John Stossel | 9.22.2011 4:30 PM

Ponzi! Ponzi! Ponzi!

The truth about Social Security

John Stossel | 9.15.2011 12:00 PM

Ten Years After

Looking back on the 9/11 anniversary

John Stossel | 9.8.2011 10:30 AM

The Gay Marriage Debate

Why the state should stay out

John Stossel | 9.1.2011 4:30 PM

Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong

Using economics to explode fallacies

John Stossel | 8.25.2011 10:30 AM

The GOP Race Heats Up

Surveying the 2012 Republican field

John Stossel | 8.18.2011 7:00 AM

What Would You Do to Improve Job Growth?

Reason asks economists, writers, and wonks for real ways to increase job growth

Robert Higgs, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Amity Shlaes, John Stossel, Donald J. Boudreaux, Bryan Caplan, Bruce Bartlett, Jeffrey Miron, John Berlau, Allan Meltzer, Ira Stoll, Walter Olson, Peter Schiff, Alex Tabarrok, Fred Smith, and Lucy Steigerwald | 8.12.2011 12:00 PM

The High Cost of Low Fuel Bills

New efficiency standards for cars may cost lives

John Stossel | 8.11.2011 12:00 PM

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