John Stossel Biography
John Stossel is a libertarian television host, author, consumer journalist, and pundit best known for his work on ABC News and Fox Business Network.
How old is John Stossel? – Age
John is 74 years old as of 6 March 2021. He was born in1947 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States. His realname is John Frank Stossel.
John Stossel Family
He is the younger of two sons born to Jewish parents who fled Germany before Hitler took power. Stossel was raised Protestant after his family joined a Congregationalist church in the United States. He attended New Trier High School and grew up on Chicago’s affluent North Shore. Stossel refers to his older brother, Thomas P. Stossel, as “the family superstar.”
John Stossel Education
He describes himself as a “indifferent student” in college, claiming that he daydreamed through half of his classes at Princeton and only applied to grad school because he was ambitious and grad school seemed like the right path for a 21-year-old who wanted to get ahead. Despite being accepted to the University of Chicago’s School of Hospital Management, Stossel was “sick of school” and believed that working would inspire him to return to graduate school with renewed vigor.
Thomas P. Stossel, Stossel’s brother, was a Harvard Medical School professor and co-director of the Hematology Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has served on the boards of directors of several pharmaceutical companies, including Merck and Pfizer. Scott Stossel, a journalist and magazine editor, is Stossel’s nephew.
John Stossel Wife
Stossel currently resides in New York City with his wife, Ellen Abrams, and their two children, Lauren and Max. They also have a residence in Massachusetts. Stossel came to accept his family’s Ashkenazi Jewish heritage after marrying his Jewish wife. They also raised their children in a Jewish household. In “Skeptic or Believer,” the December 16, 2010 episode of Stossel, Stossel identified himself as an agnostic, explaining that he did not believe in God but was open to the possibility.
John Stossel Fox
Stossel announced his departure from Disney’s ABC News in September 2009 to join News Corp.’s Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. In addition to The O’Reilly Factor every Tuesday night, he hosted a one-hour weekly program for Fox Business Network and a series of one-hour specials for Fox News Channel, as well as making regular guest appearances on Fox News programs.
Stossel premiered on Fox Business Network on December 10, 2009. Civil liberties, the business of health care, and free trade were among the topics covered in the program, which focused on individual liberty, free-market capitalism, and small government. On December 16, 2016, the final episode aired. At the end of that episode, which was a retrospective of moments from the show’s seven-year run, Stossel explained that, due to his age, he wanted to help develop a younger generation of journalists with his views, and that he would continue to appear as a guest on Fox programs as well as help produce content for Reason TV. “Stossel’s Take,” his blog, is published on both FoxBusiness.com and FoxNews.com.
John Stossel Stossel TV
Stossel TV, an online channel that distributes weekly videos via social media platforms, debuted in 2019. Videos question the efficacy of government regulations and programs, demonstrate how free markets help people live better lives and teach the principles and benefits of a free society.
John Stossel Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
John Stossel Books
Stossel is the author of three books. Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media is a Harper Perennial autobiography published in 2005 that details his career and philosophical shift from liberalism to libertarianism. It describes his opposition to government regulation, his belief in the free market and private enterprise, his support for tort reform, and his advocacy for shifting government social services to private charities. For 11 weeks, it was a New York Times best-seller.
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel – Why Everything You Know Is Wrong, published by Hyperion in 2007, calls into question the validity of various conventional wisdom and contends that the belief that he is a conservative is false. Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint, published Stossel’s third book, No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails – But Individuals Succeed, on April 10, 2012. It contends that government policies are intended to solve problems instead of creating new ones, and those free individuals and the private sector perform tasks more efficiently than the government.
Stossel and ABC News launched a series of educational materials for public schools called “Stossel in the Classroom” in 1999, with financial support from the libertarian Palmer R. Chitester Fund.
The Center for Independent Thought took over in 2006, and each year a new DVD of teaching materials is released. Stossel and ABC released Teaching Tools for Economics, a video series based on National Council of Economics Education standards, in 2006. Stossel has been writing a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate since February 2011. His work has appeared in online publications such as Newsmax, Reason, and Townhall.