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John Stossel During his last campaign, Biden claimed he “knows how to make government work.” But he doesn’t! No one does. Biden can’t keep track of what he spends, inflation is worse, and our national debt is the highest it’s ever been. Economist Ed Stringham says, “It’s a hubris that the government knows best.” While government fails to work, the private sector gets things done. Our new video shows ways markets outperform even the best-meaning politicians.

The Full Johan Norberg: Sweden’s “Socialism,” the Loneliness "Epidemic,” Degrowth and other Myths John Stossel Lots of people hate capitalism. They want socialism instead. They say capitalism hurts the poor. That's just not true. Johan Norberg explains how capitalism saves lives and why socialism always fails. Swedish historian and author, Johan Norberg also dispels the myth that Sweden is a socialist success. In many ways, Sweden is more free market than America. Norberg explains the many benefits that capitalism offers - it even makes people less lonely, more generous, and less racist. Here’s our full discussion on capitalism, the degrowth movement, “Scandinavian socialism” and more.

John Stossel The government may soon be able to shut down your car. Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill includes a kill switch for new cars. In an effort to reduce drunk driving, government wants devices in cars that will monitor and limit impaired driving. But there’s a big problem: these devices give government control over your car. Automotive engineer and former vintage race car driver Lauren Fix points out the dangers.

John Stossel Biden’s Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new rules. They say it will help freelancers. Apparently the leftists didn’t notice how similar rules in California HURT freelancers! I covered California’s “protect freelancer” law four years ago. California politicians and the media claimed freelancers were being abused. Their solution: a new law, AB5, that reclassified millions of them as staff employees—whether they liked it or not. Politicians claimed businesses would now be forced to pay them, “wages and benefits that they deserve.” “In reality, what's actually happening is they’re just letting them all go,” said freelance musician Ari Herstand. 4 years later, the results are in: So many careers were ruined that California exempted more than a hundred industries, but freelancers STILL lost their jobs. Yet now the Labor Department is forcing the rest of the country to be more like California? Why? Watch the video to find out.

John Stossel If you find someone squatting in your house, it turns out that there’s often very little you can do to get them out. That’s why Flash Shelton started SquatterHunters.com, to help homeowners remove unwanted intruders. Flash Shelton couldn’t believe it when he found there was a stranger living in his mother’s old house. He called the police, but they wouldn’t help him. Turns out, laws meant to protect tenants, also protect squatters. Shelton took matters into his own hands. Here’s how he out-squatted the squatter.

John Stossel Covid’s "15 days" turned into years, and the loss of our freedoms increased. It’s important we don’t forget what happened. Politicians destroyed jobs and increased costs. They made bad things worse with arbitrary rules, and on top of that, government probably killed people with its endless red tape. Let’s remember politicians’ incompetence and their insatiable wish to gain power over us. Let’s never give them power like that again.

John Stossel Activists have a new goal: "DEgrowth." They say "growth is killing us." They couldn't be MORE wrong. "Growth is not killing us. It's saving us!" says author Johan Norberg. He explains why growth is essential to human progress, especially for poor people. "In poor countries, if you manage to grow by 4% annually over 20 years," he points out, "that reduces poverty in that country on average by 80%. But DEgrowth activists insist that growth means "climate chaos." They say a smaller economy would be "sweeter." They say "We must urgently dismantle capitalism!" It's destructive nonsense. This video explains why.

John Stossel Politicians and activists tell how “renewable" energy will save us from the climate “crisis.” They don’t tell us about the real costs of green power. My new video covers a documentary series called, “Juice: Politics, Power and the Grid.” It reveals how although renewables sound green, they have lots of problems. California promises to get 50% of their electricity from renewable sources. Now they deal with blackouts, rationing, and prices that increased 3x faster than in the rest of the US. You can watch the full documentary at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHcsA62iJwtTVoGfqvfCvIQ

John Stossel Privacy specialist Naomi Brockwell looked through my phone and said I should DELETE most of my apps. Here’s what she said I should delete and why.

John Stossel Reporters often suck up to Democrats, but interrupt and cut off Republicans. Hostile interruptions are easy to notice. Other media bias is more subtle. Until this year, the media always covered Iowa Caucus victory speeches. But when Trump won, CNN cut away from his speech. Some say it’s not responsible to broadcast Trump live because he lies so much. But Biden lies too. We reporters can point that out. That’s better than censoring candidates’ speeches. The media should let us listen and decide for ourselves.

John Stossel Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, understands that the government cannot create wealth. That's why Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, saying he would cut the size and power of government. In the United States, attempts to shrink government haven't gone far, but in Argentina, Milei won by a massive 3 million votes. In just the first month of his presidency, Milei repealed rent and price controls and eliminated trade restrictions. Daniel Di Martino, founder of www.dissidentproject.org, who escaped Venezuela and became an economist in America, says it's impressive that Milei won by promising massive cuts. The video above covers a little of what Milei has rapidly accomplished.

John Stossel Federal flood insurance is a disaster! As I reported years ago, Federal Flood Insurance encourages idiots like me to do foolish things like building a house on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. It was a risky place to build, but I did it anyway because government guaranteed my investment. Eventually, my whole house was destroyed, but I didn't lose a penny. Thanks! But it's wrong that you paid for my risk-taking, and it's good that finally, one senator, Rand Paul, wants to limit this handout. He points out, that there's no limit on how many times your government will give away your money. "One house in Virginia, they've rebuilt the house 41 times," explains Paul. 41 times! Federal flood insurance is like buying drunk drivers new cars. It's not government's job to protect people from the risks we choose to take. We should get rid of federal flood insurance and all subsidies that encourage people like me to build in risky places.

John Stossel The world is filled with makers and takers, like Elon Musk and Elizabeth Warren. Makers create. Some get rich, like Elon Musk. He creates cool things like Tesla cars and Starlink satellites, that let poor people access the internet. Then there are takers. They are often politicians, like Senator Elizabeth Warren. They grab other people's wealth. Our world needs fewer Elizabeth Warrens and more Elon Musks.

John Stossel Is your property...yours? Not if the government takes it. Susette Kelo bought a run-down home. She fixed it up and painted it pink. Then the government came and took it. "Eminent Domain" has long allowed politicians to grab your property to build roads, railroad tracks, a border wall--anything they claim is for "public use." But they wanted Kelo's house so they could give the property to a private developer. Is that right? Susette fought for her home, all the way to the Supreme Court. Eventually she lost her case, and her home. The movie, "The Little Pink House," is a good reminder of just how powerful, and wrong, politicians often are.

John Stossel Thanks to artificial intelligence, the driverless car is finally here! For years, car companies promised that cars would drive themselves, but it never happened...until now. Now, Google has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to create a driverless car called Waymo. It works kind of like Uber. You open the Waymo app, request a ride, and within minutes, a driverless car shows up. My executive producer, Maxim Lott, went to Phoenix and San Francisco to learn more about it. He rode in a Waymo with former Argo driverless car executive Alex Roy. The two sat in the back, since no human needs to sit in the front. The wheel moves itself, as if a ghost were driving. Waymo's data shows it is already safer than human drivers. How do the cars manage that? Lott explains the technology and future of self-driving cars in the full video above.

John Stossel Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says we waste money in the fight against climate change. Governments spends trillions to fight climate change, but Lomborg says many of these policies are "not an efficient way of spending." For saying this, Lomborg has been called "the devil." The Danish government even targeted him for his views on climate change. "I'm not trying to do something that's immoral or anything," he tells me. "I'm simply trying to make sure that we get it right." Lomborg says there are better things society should spend money on. He says we should spend on the "best things first," things like maternal and newborn health and improving education, rather than squandering billions on pointless gestures toward stopping climate changes.

John Stossel Ketan Vakil started a company to sell Low-FODMAP foods. He wants to tell the truth on his labels. His customers want that information so they can follow the diet prescribed by their doctors. But the government said NO! Why? Our first Stossel TV Fellow, Trevor Kraus of Learn Liberty, examines why the government bans accurate information on food labels. See the story in the video above.

John Stossel Scaremongers tell us: capitalism makes us "feel lonely" and "empty inside." But Johan Norberg's new book, The Capitalist Manifesto, points out the many ways capitalism makes life better, including making people LESS lonely. "Every poll we're looking at shows that people say that they're less lonely in the most market-oriented societies," Norberg tells me. The Human Freedom Index ranks countries according to how free, and market-oriented they are. Not only are people less lonely in capitalist countries, but Norberg points out that "if you increase freedom by one point, you reduce loneliness levels by six percentage points." But I tell Norberg, "Under capitalism, people compete. Sounds divisive. Sounds like it would pull us apart." "Feudalism, communism, fascism... that's divisive. That's all based on getting resources by taking them from somebody else. What capitalism does is that it forces us to think, 'what does the other guy want?'" says Norberg. That's because, under capitalism, to sell someone something, you have to please them. The full video above has more information about how capitalism makes our lives better.

John Stossel The government is tracking you. Here's HOW they do it and WHY you should care. @NaomiBrockwellTV has a popular YouTube channel where she points out that the government constantly spies on us, using data that apps collect via our phones. But these apps "make my life easier," I push back,"Convenience matters!" "But privacy is important," explains Brockwell. "The government is purchasing all this data about us. They're creating records about all of us, and that's a really scary thing." "That data is forever...You have no control over what societal norms might change in the next 10 years and that data suddenly becomes incriminating. You're basically making a bet that you and the people with the guns will always stay on good terms." In the video above, she explains why that's not a good bet to make.

John Stossel Senator Rand Paul tells me that scientists and government officials worked together to cover up Covid's origin. Remember how government officials handled the pandemic? The so-called experts and media made lots of mistakes. Experts told us there was no way it could have leaked from a lab. Senator Rand Paul didn't believe the experts. Now, his new book, "Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up," reveals details about the origins of Covid and the government's deceit. "So, evil Chinese scientists in a lab funded by America?" I ask. "It looks like it came from the lab," Senator Rand Paul tells me. "America funded it. It was maybe not done with evil intentions. It was done with the misguided notion that gain of function research was safe." In our FULL interview with Senator Rand Paul, we discuss the evidence that Covid came from a lab, Fauci, vaccines, and more.

John Stossel 23-year-old Rikki Schlott self-censored her views in college. What did she believe that was so terrible? Well, she's a right-leaning libertarian. At NYU, that's scary, she says. "I was afraid to have Thomas Sowell books on my bookshelf," says Schlott. She kept her mouth shut and eventually dropped out of NYU because she found it stifling. But now, Schlott is fighting back. Her new book Cancelling of the American Mind, details how cancel culture crushes people who think differently. "We need to come together and actually fight back." Schlott tells me, "We want to live in a free speech culture and not a cancel culture." Watch the video to learn more about Rikki Schott's fight.

John Stossel The government tells us 33 million Americans suffer from food insecurity! Really? 33 million Americans are hungry? "That's just not true," says Rachel Sheffield, a researcher at The Heritage Foundation. "'Food insecure' adults are more likely to be consuming too many calories rather than too few," The government always tries to create a crisis. "Government programs tend to want to keep themselves going," says Sheffield. But their handouts harm the very people they are meant to help. "We've spent more on the war on poverty than all the military wars combined in the United States without any success." The result? Increased dependency on government! Expanding the welfare system seems to be the government's main goal. The food insecurity myth and others, like "food desserts," are debunked in the video above.

John Stossel Top scientists tried to cover up the origin of Covid, according to Senator Rand Paul. In his new book "Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up," Paul backs up his claims about a Covid lab leak from a research facility funded by Anthony Fauci. "It looks like it came from the lab," Senator Rand Paul tells me. "America funded it. It was maybe not done with evil intentions. It was done with the misguided notion that gain of function research was safe." Gain of function research includes making viruses more deadly or infectious, in order to develop vaccines. Paul argues that gain of function is a risk to civilization. :We could wind up with a lethal virus that leaks out of a lab and kills half of the planet." You can watch the video above for more on why Paul thinks Covid came from a lab, and how officials tried to cover it up.

John Stossel Pennsylvania regulators are forcing truck drivers to buy trucks outside Pennsylvania. The crazy part: they didn't even make the rules; they were made by California. "We have no say, we can't do anything about it," says Brian Wanner the owner of Peter Brothers Trucking, "I don't want to be anything like California." But that's too bad, because Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board decided to automatically copy rules from California. The newest rules will raise the cost of new trucks by more than $50,000. The regulators say these rules are important to stop pollution. That's dumb, says Wanner, "In 1980, 1 truck produced as much as 60 trucks today." "So, we want people to buy new trucks," I ask? "You want people to buy new trucks," responds Wanner. "But if you put these costs on us that we cannot afford, we're going to just run the older trucks." That's something the regulators don't think about. In fact, there's a lot they don't think about. Their decision hurts truck sellers, won't stop pollution, could be unconstitutional, and will only get more expensive when California mandates "all electric." All that and more in the video above.

John Stossel What happens if police destroy your property while trying to catch a bad guy? Do they compensate you? For many the answer is: NO! Innocent print shop owner Carlos Pena had his shop wrecked by police. “All the work of my life … just got ruined!” says Pena. Police destroyed his shop trying to catch a man who barricaded himself inside the shop. Pena thought he’d be reimbursed. But after a year spent trying to navigate the bureaucracy, he hasn’t received anything. “They just gave me numbers to call. And when you call, they referred me to somebody else,” explains Pena, “It's unbearable!” Lawyer Jeffrey Redfern of the Institute for Justice took his case for free because he says what happened to Pena is unconstitutional. “We want to make it clear,” explains Redfern, “when police destroy innocent people's property, they have to pay for the damage that they did.”