Ben Stein Calls For A Wall Street Bailout

Posted by John Carney, Jan 14, 2008, 4:57pm

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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Posted by nominate stein, Jan 14, 2008 5:21PM

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.

Posted by , Jan 14, 2008 5:44PM

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

Posted by conebone69, Jan 14, 2008 6:03PM

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.

Posted by nice byline, douche bag, Jan 14, 2008 6:10PM

Ben Stein is a lawyer, writer, actor and economist. E-mail: ebiz@nytimes.com

too bad he sucks at all of them.

Posted by JorgeCad, Jan 14, 2008 6:10PM

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.

Posted by Been Stained, Jan 14, 2008 7:53PM

Ben is my man. Don't let Kudlow know that Ben killed Goldilocks to get us a bailout.

Posted by , Jan 14, 2008 9:49PM

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.

Posted by , Jan 15, 2008 12:10AM

ben stein is a capitalist tool; that's why we love him

Posted by Ferris, Jan 15, 2008 6:26AM

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by Noonan, Jan 15, 2008 8:42AM

Conebone69, you must be a Krugman fan.

It's Kristol, you schmuck.

Posted by Chris G., Jan 15, 2008 2:31PM

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.

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