You have to admire the mental agility of Ben Stein. A couple of weeks ago he was calling for the Justice Department to investigate Wall Street. Now he wants the government to bail them out with billions of taxpayer dollars.
Oh, and it’s not morning in America anymore. Now he says the economy is slowing.
Larry, Curly, Moe and the Economy [New York Times]
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me thinks benji jumped on the market at the 1st 10% drop in july and now he’s doing all the pumping to cover his skinny ass. his lame articles did a 180 since then.
hmmm … reminds me of paulson, bernanke, greenspan and every other lying MF involved in this market of thieves that goes out of their way to obfuscate the truth
I mean whats the deal with the NY times paying people to write things for the newspaper who have no creditibility. For example, ben stein and now Bill “I got my job through my dad” Cristol. What a joke.
Ben Stein is a lawyer, writer, actor and economist. E-mail: ebiz@nytimes.com
too bad he sucks at all of them.
No post on the (former) CIBC Capital Markets story. Has Commerce slipped that much into obscurity on the street? Me thinks so. – even the Bloomberg story was about 300 words long.
Ben is my man. Don’t let Kudlow know that Ben killed Goldilocks to get us a bailout.
Stein is a moron, knows nothing. Read Kass on thestreet.com, he hs called out Stein for months on end. Kass is the only commentator who has been discussing the meltdown correctly for the last 9 months.
ben stein is a capitalist tool; that’s why we love him
Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Conebone69, you must be a Krugman fan.
It’s Kristol, you schmuck.
Mr. Stein’s entire argument is honestly laughable. The fact that it was published in the New York Times tells me they understand economics even less than he does – even with Princeton genius Paul Krugman hanging around.