Tag Archives: John Stossel

Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

A friend asked what I thought about Occupy Wall Street.  I directed him to John Stossel’s latest column, Wall Street Protesters Half Right, because Stossel does a great job of summing up my views. I hope that the OWS protesters … Continue reading →

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“Stupid in America”

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Check your FoxNews lineup and set your DVR to record John Stossel’s recent education special, Stupid in America.  If you know when it will next air, let me know and I’ll provide an update. It originally aired last weekend.  I … Continue reading →

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A better term for rent-seeking

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

John Stossel has a more intuitive term for economic rent-seeking (which I wrote about here, here and here). His term is freeloading. His latest FoxNews television special goes by the title Freeloaders and he too harps on GE for using … Continue reading →

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Stossel’s Battle for the Future

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

John Stossel did some nice work on his Fox Show The Battle for the Future.  You can watch all six segments on youtube for free. I enjoyed the story of how Sandy Spring, GA privatized its government work that starts … Continue reading →

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Jobs and Unemployment Benefits

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

I highly recommend John Stossel’s excellent one-hour special from Saturday evening on the FoxNews Channel. The focus of one of Stossel’s segments was the incentives around unemployment benefits.  He interviewed people who said they passed up jobs because the jobs … Continue reading →

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Economics Should Be Easy

Posted on July 3, 2010 by

“Rank-and-file PhD economist” Kartik Athreya explains why Economics is Hard and “bloggers” like John Stossel, Matt Yglesias, Robert Samuelson and Robert Reich are unlikely to have anything “interesting to say” about economics and “cannot meaningfully advance the discussion on economics … Continue reading →

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Great Stossel Show

Posted on June 16, 2010 by

If you’re like me and don’t have the Fox Business News channel in your line-up, you’re missing good television.  Luckily, there’s this thing called Youtube where you can also view his show.  His latest show was on Milton and Rose … Continue reading →

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Great Tea Party Podcasts

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

Catching up with my Dennis Miller podcasts from the past week, I came across three exceptional podcasts: Go to iTunes. Search for The Dennis Miller Show. Download and listen to these three podcasts: Andrew Breitbart Interview – April 13, 2010 … Continue reading →

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Good Reading

Posted on April 7, 2010 by

1.  Walter Williams – Parting Company I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is … Continue reading →

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Food Control

Posted on March 29, 2010 by

In this post a few days ago I explained how politicians might make the case to control shelf space in your local grocery store to sell more wholesome foods like apples. Coincidentally, I read this post today on John Stossel’s … Continue reading →

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