Many conservatives distrust Business Week .
Others have cited instances in which Business Week has taken anti-free market positions. Twenty two of those editorials favored limiting government, eleven favored expanding or maintaining the present size of government, and nine editorials were mixed, advocating both limited government and anti-limited government policies. Business Week was most warm to free-market principles when the issue was international trade. Eight editorials during the year either favored freer trade or condemned Japan and the rest of Asia for mercantilist policies. The magazine was equally laissez-faire in its policy prescriptions for Japan and Asia.