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Politicians always want to “improve” our economy.But again and again, they make things worse. “The more we move away from free markets, the worse things become” says economist Don Boudreaux, author of “The Triumph of Economic Freedom."Boudreaux explains how government intervention made the Great Depression last longer, caused the Great Recession, and more.He also debunks myths like the "growing gap" between rich and poor:“If you look at the data, that growing gap isn’t growing. That gap is due to a statistical illusion.” In this podcast, we talk about “The Triumph of Economic Freedom" and debunk myths about poverty, AI taking jobs, and the dumb ways politicians claim to “improve" the economy....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZCwps6DZI

Seattle’s new socialist mayor wants to give workers more leisure time.Economist Don Boudreaux explains why her policies will backfire....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYp3X4j1hg

Do we live in a “golden age?”MaybeBut throughout history, we’ve seen many golden ages fall.How do we make ours continue?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPDwWvUsoS4

A few years ago, St Paul, Minnesota passed the strictest rent control in the country. Politicians promised it would "end profiteering." Activists cheered. Here's what really happened.---------------------To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form---------------------"This is such a step backwards," economist Salim Furth of the Mercatus Center told me when the law passed, “it's going to hurt renters!” He was right. Developers fled. New construction fell. Now residents complain, "The lack of housing... it's a crisis." The mayor who once supported the law had second thoughts. Now, St Paul's city council has voted to loosen the law. I'd think other politicians would learn from St Paul's failure. But no, my socialist mayor just froze rent on a million apartments in New York City! Above, we cover how rent control failed in St Paul, and why New York will be next....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-fFbdf9hw

War and poverty and crises, oh my! Turn on the news and life looks terrible. But it’s not true says @YaronBrook. “Life has never been better for most people on planet earth!” Here’s why:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izASf-WYMYo

Politicians love to hand out free stuff! Sen Rand Paul points out… it’s not free....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvFI9iIjk8

We were told climate change is an “existential” threat.So governments everywhere pledged to go net-zero and stop increasing emissions.It didn't work.---------To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form————Net-zero was pushed again and again.President Biden pledged the USA would go net-zero by 2050.Obama bragged about how, “700 cities in more than 50 countries have pledged to reach net-zero.”For a while it seemed like that might happen. Some European countries claimed to get 60% of their power from renewables.But then they faced soaring energy costs and blackouts.“The power outages are the starkest illustration of bad electricity policy,” says energy expert Alex Epstein. “But you can avoid power outages with these bad policies. What you can't avoid is scarcity and rationing and poverty.”In the video above we break down those consequences, explain why net-zero fails, and cover the governments (and businesses) walking back their net-zero push....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj0r-huZlpY

Author Alex Epstein tells me, fossil fuels allow us to make the planet “unnaturally safe.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14PFX8qslgU

Former leftist Dave Rubin, speaking at Universities, often gets shouted down … sometime even by school faculty! He says “They’re not there to listen, they’re there to protest.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DfsDobj8U4

Did you know the SAT is racist? Years ago, claims of racism led MOST colleges to stop requiring the test. Now, 5 years later, the SAT is making a comeback. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _ Activists said ditching the test "would allow more students to be accepted into a wider range of colleges." Sounds nice. But in reality: “It’s about making these campuses look right, using them to make your college catalog look more colorful,” says Jason Riley of The Wall Street Journal. “It’s not about learning.” Mismatching students and schools only hurt minority kids. "They're being set up to fail," says Riley. "It's not working!" It wasn't, and now schools finally acknowledge that. Columbia admits test scores were a "useful indicator." No kidding. Every Ivy League has brought back testing, and other schools are following suit. Full update in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5U2438YCbg

Leftists encourage people to see themselves VICTIMS and demand their “fair" share. Psychologist Jordan Peterson reminds people that fulfillment comes from RESPONSIBILITY. Millions listen:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nglq6kJSkIY

The future of delivery is here: Drones!But only if government gives permission._ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscrib... _ _ _ _ _ _Drones deliver pizza, burgers, packages, even groceries! All faster and more efficiently than cars.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos assumed we’d have delivery drones by 2018.Why are they still not common?“Confusing regulations,” says Adam Thierer, author of Permissionless Innovation.The FAA requires complex permits to fly drones farther than the operator can see them. The rules are so complex, only 8 companies have gotten permissiion.“It takes a lot of work from a company with the size and resources like Amazon to get these limited permits,” says Thierer.In the video above: the ups and downs of delivery drones, and how Trump is trying to cut regulations....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnK_DuK4ac

“The BRUTAL uprooting of rural Britain,” is how a BBC broadcaster describes the Industrial Revolution.“That's historical amnesia,” says Johan Norberg. “For the first time, mankind began to escape hunger and destitution."Compared to what came before, the industrial revolution was a golden age....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiihaBfbFc

“You can’t put a price on human life?!” That’s what politicians say, spending your money on other people’s health care. But 9/11 fund boss Kenneth Feinberg puts a price on life all the time. He talks about it here:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZREaJZM4CI

I hear bees are dying, polar bears are going extinct, and weather is getting more extreme every day!All lies. ———To make sure you receive the weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscrib...——— Media tell me the Great Barrier Reef is dying.But “the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine,” says climate researcher Linnea Lueken. "Corals thrive in tropical conditions.”Environmental groups says recycling will save the planet.That’s another myth.Author John Tierney says “recycling is garbage ... It’s a sacrament of the green religion." In the video above, we debunk lies activists push about the environment....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vsyB84TcI

Fearmongering media say climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.” Climate change is real, but is it the apocalypse? Climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr. doesn’t think so. But just expressing skepticism got him attacked by our government.Al Gore blamed extreme weather on climate change. “Every storm is different now because it takes place in a warmer and wetter world.” But that isn’t true.Roger Pielke Jr explains: "we haven’t observed changes in the frequency or intensity (of storms) that are beyond natural variability." He adds, “The increasing impacts of extreme weather…are due to what we build, where we build, how much wealth we have in harm’s way.” In other words, weather costs more because people build more expensive properties in risky places. Pielkie's research has won awards and is cited by the U.N. climate committee. Still, activists hate it. A congressman investigated him, and the University of Colorado shut down his research center. Pielke didn’t back down. Now, the American Enterprise Institute supports his work. “You can’t be cancelled," says Pielke, "You can let them cancel you, but you can’t be cancelled.” His full story in the podcast above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwmZ6noDn00

Sen Rand Paul rebuts the dark appeal of socialism in his book, “The Case Against Socialism.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Z3hmGAmh8

Climate alarmists insist there’s a “scientific consensus” that says climate change is a crisis, and man causes it! Researcher Judith Curry tells me, “it’s a manufactured consensus.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqAObsThT6M

I’ve failed! For years, I’ve made the case for free markets. Yet now socialists WIN elections.---------To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form————I’m worried.But Steve Forbes, of Forbes Magazine, is optimistic."You go out there and make the fight," says Forbes. "Maybe you have to use different tools, different arguments ... but you don't give up.”In our full interview he explains how only with “liberty, humanity moves forward.”We also cover: inflation, lessons from history, what socialists get wrong, and how entrepreneurs achieve what government doesn’t....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIiKpaxCYmw

Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, has a message for criminals:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuguolv9qMI

“Illegal, dangerous, out of control,” screamed politicians when Uber and Lyft started out. Usually it was because taxicab unions complained. But Uber and Lyft made our lives better. Attorney Tim Sandefur explains why government should get out of the way....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAO9kwrtc0

Donald Trump, running for office, said, “No more wars.” Joe Biden said, “It’s time to end the forever war.” But both got us involved in foreign wars. So did presidents before them. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _ Every president since Clinton attacked another country. That's why Matt Taibbi writes, "We Are Doomed and Our Leaders Are Insane." Despite promises on the campaign trail, "not one of our presidents … can resist starting wars.” Obama was elected after he promised to roll back the War on Terror. He was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after only 8 months in office. But Obama expanded assassinations and launched missiles at Libya. Trump started no wars in his first term, and, in 2024, he repeatedly said, “No more wars.” But in his second term, he struck Venezuela and attacked Iran. His and other presidents' hypocrisy in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVyIR8KBw8

Sen Rand Paul says “violence is inherent to socialism.” Is it?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQXjtsqYcb8

The media publish scary story’s based on the United Nation’s impressive sounding, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… the I-P-C-C. I ask climate scientist Judith Curry what the UN group predicted, verse what really happened....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMLZJYx1Ls

A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed. Plants shut down, and people cheered.---------------------------------To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form---------------------------------NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo even bragged about shutting down a nuclear plant "14 years ahead of schedule." People applauded. “Why would they applaud?" asks Ray Rothrock, a former nuclear engineer who now invests in nuclear energy, "You got to be kidding me.” Rothrock advocates for nuclear power because he says it’s clean and reliable. He’s met with presidents to explain that. But nothing ever changed, until now. President Trump has ordered regulators to speed up approval of new nuclear plants. In the video above, we cover nuclear power’s comeback, how regulators nearly killed it, and debunk the activists’ ridiculous scares....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXCWMwlCPw

Psychologist Jordan Peterson tells me that identity politics, and looking at people as groups instead of individuals, leads to dangerous consequences....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcBVzH9fcg

Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, explains what the Second Amendment really means:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vz7-bZXzBQ

I'm told socialism is a working-class movement.In reality, its biggest promoters live lives of privilege!_ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _Political psychologist Rob Henderson has a name for this: a "luxury belief.”An idea that buys the wealthy status, while the poor pay the price.Take NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His socialist ideas make him popular, yet make life for everyday working people expensive.That doesn’t matter to him. He grew up rich!“He is the poster boy for luxury beliefs,” says Henderson, “He has a wealthy filmmaker mother, [and] an Ivy League professor father.”Mamdani is not unique among socialists.Congresswoman AOC, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, and streamer Hasan Piker all have privileged lives.In the video above, Stossel TV Fellow Leyla Taghiyeva breaks down the examples, and why it’s a problem....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7n6injw8GI

Who owns you?Government often acts like they own us.But lawyer Tim Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute reminds us, we own ourselves.“People should not have power over other people’s lives,” says Sandefur.His book, You Don’t Own Me, talks about that, and how popular culture often reflects this message.“Ours is a nation where the individual’s right to pursue happiness is written into it’s foundational document” he reminds us.In this podcast, more on Sandefur’s book, libertarianism, Hollywood propaganda, and his fight against government overreach....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBL44Cgu0E

Will this be the fall of the American empire?Some headlines suggest that.But historian Johan Norberg says, “We can still save this golden age,” if we learn the lessons from past golden ages....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swSEWFW-spI

Want to win a million dollars? You might, maybe. First you take the Foundation for Economic Education’s @FEEonline quiz about affordability.@AndrewHeatonTPO explains:You can take the quiz at milliondollarquestion.org....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86F0-7cv_Co

Cars kill more than 100 people per day. The solution? Self-driving cars. They’re MUCH safer. But some politicians worry more about jobs than lives. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _ Some people say self-driving cars will take taxi drivers’ jobs. “I cannot support something that is going to almost overnight lead to loss of jobs for … over 100,000 people,” says New York State Senator Luis Sepúlveda. But job changes aren’t necessarily bad. Adam Thierer of the R Street Institute explains, “Free markets … allow people to move into other jobs where they’re more highly paid…” Also, click-chasing news reports claim that self-driving cars aren’t safe. That’s not true. Data show they’re 10 times safer than human drivers! If politicians stop self-driving, more people will die. Full story in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRCbFG4e1g

In the movie “300," Hollywood portrays 300 Spartans holding off MILLIONS of Persians and saving Greece.But the Spartans actually failed. “Spartans are the most overrated warriors in history,” says Johan Norberg....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5Ea-mqX58

Many governments vow to eliminate fossil fuels AND eliminate poverty. Author Alex Epstein argues, poor people need fossil fuels the most....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYaXLj0bYtk

Activists in Seattle said app-based gig workers were being exploited. So politicians eagerly came to the rescue with a new $26 minimum wage. Did it work? No. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _ The politicians believed companies like Uber and Doordash make so much money they could eat the cost without raising prices. Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute explains why that’s not true. “Obviously, when you’re increasing cost to businesses, you’re going to increase cost to customers.” That’s exactly what happened. Prices went up, and many people stopped ordering delivery. DoorDash got 1.7 million fewer orders in 2024. Fewer orders meant less work and less pay for drivers. “A lot of politicians want to believe there's a free lunch,” says Glock. "The actual effect was ... to sabotage one of the most successful businesses in the city." Full story on how Seattle and New York City politicians hurt the gig economy in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWGiG5fkeA

Charles Murray explains why dads are crucial to young boys....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-QRRmRz0ho

Psychologist Jordan Peterson says “compassion is a vice.” What does that mean?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01fETTs85k

The FDA banned most peptides from being sold to consumers. So now people get them from China.------------------------To make sure you receive the weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form————————————RFK Jr. takes them. One neuroscientist says they could "eradicate obesity" and boost energy and libido. But the FDA banned most of them. Dr. Anita Gupta sat on the advisory committee that recommended the ban. I ask her why doctors get to be the gatekeepers. “We can't undo an injection," she said. "There could be an immune response.” “Could” be. But the ban doesn’t stop people from using peptides. It just pushes them into a gray market. Now people buy peptides from China. How is that safer? In our video above we cover how the FDA’s “protection” also stops good drugs, and more about peptides....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXMsHm9EAbY

Lovers of big government trash capitalism. But James Lindsay points out that capitalism CREATES wealth. So why don’t they like it? "It requires people to be free,” explains Lindsay, “you can't control people who are free.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZQNlAx0QI

Trump pressured colleges to drop DEI departments. Some just renamed the departments. “'Diversity and Equity' becomes 'Belonging and Community',” says Heather Mac Donald. She explains how these DEI hurts students:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd7RywbzNRs

The Justice Department has released new guidelines that find the EEOC’s use of “disparate impact” is unconstitutional.Good.Disparate impact is a woke legal doctrine that’s rewritten American standards:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34kFPU9e0k

Politicians always want to “improve” our economy.But again and again, they make things worse. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _“ The more we move away from free markets, the worse things become” says economist Don Boudreaux, author of “The Triumph of Economic Freedom."Boudreaux explains how government intervention made the Great Depression last longer, caused the Great Recession, and more.He also debunks myths like the "growing gap" between rich and poor:“If you look at the data, that growing gap isn’t growing. That gap is due to a statistical illusion.” In this full interview, we talk about “The Triumph of Economic Freedom" and debunk myths about poverty, AI taking jobs, and the dumb ways politicians claim to “improve" the economy....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOwIGHeSJtA

Dave Rubin says identity politics are unamerican. “The only thing there is,” he says, “is the individual.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDQA8Ahums

There's ENDLESS alarmism from the media and politicians about climate change. AOC shouts, "People are dying!!” But Judith Curry tells me, in reality climate-related deaths are FALLING. Falling by a lot, because of better technology....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsriPFQDIo

Four years ago, I reported on social worker Ursula Newell-Davis’s fight to help special needs kids. Louisiana's Health Department told her she couldn’t work because her business wasn’t needed. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _How does the government know if a business is needed? The market should decide.Bureaucrats say blocking businesses like hers helps “limit the burden on regulators." That’s absurd. “That’s just not a legitimate excuse that the government doesn’t have enough money to administer people’s constitutional rights.” says Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation. She’s helping Newell-Davis sue Louisiana.But It’s not just Louisiana--dozens of states have laws that force entrepreneurs to prove they’re needed. In this update video, I report on her fight, and the new way she found to help special needs kids, without government interference....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo6KXckkU-0

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy.But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems.Hayek and Mises predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. They warned that centrally planned economies fail.But today, socialism is popular again. New York and Seattle have elected socialist mayors.Many politicians still believe that government can manage the economy—an idea popularized by economist John Maynard Keynes.Keynes was revered. Politicians love his arguments.But Hayek and Mises warned that government intervention leads to inflation, instability, and boom-bust cycles.They were right.In this podcast, Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute explains why we should read Hayek and Mises today....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNq9BvMYDHE

The surprising thing about history's "golden ages" is that they (so far) don't stay golden.Today the Muslim world isn't known for its prosperity. It's more known for poverty and oppression.But it was once "the leading civilization on the planet when it came to science, technology and freedom,” says historian Johan Norberg....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0sm00h2dI

“Freedom is not perfection,” says Gloria Alvarez....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDE8nkPKkpU

Ben Franklin warned: America has "a republic, if you can keep it." If!He wasn't sure the great experiment would last. I ask Stossel TV guests, how did we make it to 250 years? _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _ Americans "went out into the untamed wilderness and established towns and cities that really didn't have to lean on a central government in order to function.” says Linnea Lueken of Heartland Institute. That self-reliance made America successful. Unfortunately, today, people say, “Problem? There ought to be a law!” But the more government “fixes” things, the more control politicians have over us, and the less freedom we have. That’s not what the founders wanted. What really makes America thrive? Ron Paul, Steve Forbes, Jennifer Grossman, Grover Norquist and others explain in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cjl8YIexgU

Would Sen Rand Paul support a vaccine mandate if airborne Ebola was spreading in America?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkDuSMDL_I