Comments on: I'm Ben Stein, And I've Erred Financially

Feeling Bad About Your Recent Financial Choices? You're Not Alone

[ofbyfor1]

Stein is a moron--period!

[boffo1962]

I think some people just be jealous of Ben Stein.

He''s a good egg.

[ubrew12]

"I''m Ben Stein, And I''ve Erred Financially"

Any chance conservative Ben could ''convert'' GW Bush into admitting that? It might heal the nation and give us a new footing to deal with our rather grim future.

[tksk53]

YOU KNOW WHAT
I just plain don''t like Ben Stein
And that voice of his drives me crazy when I hear it
TKSK53

[jcpok]

The smart ones go forward and learn from their mistakes. They don''t, as Mr. Stein has done for the last 35 years, try to remarket the same failed and seemingly mystical economic policies under a series of new names.

First, Mr. Stein''s crowd (or maybe it was Professor Barro who got this started) called it Ricardian Equivalence, then it was supply-side economics, then trickle-down economics, then it was about smaller government and most recently, in a fit a desperation, they called it "starve-the-beast" economics. No matter the name, the policy was the same and it always failed. Massive tax cuts for the wealthy, exploding deficits and an assault on our most prized social institutions.

I''m sorry, but Ben Stein is a much better actor than he is an economist... and, if you''ve seen some of his performances, you would know that ain''t saying much.

[smurfcrusher]

Well gee, Ben, has everyone made the same mistake?

I think not... Some people are prospering as a result of their good judgment. They will pass their wealth on to their children, who may use it to start their own families.

Call it Financial Evolution.

[pvperson]

And why did Stein lose so much of other peoples money? I think this quote sums it up, "The smart ones among us". Arrogance, maybe? Or maybe he was to busy thumpin his bible to pay attention.

[rushlimpdrug]

1.
"I''m Ben Stein, And I''ve Erred Financially"


Who cares?


2.
"How could I have made so many idiotic mistakes?"


It is called greed.


PLEEEEZE CBs get this clown off your site.

The man is pathetic and NEVER has anything to say.

Get someone with FRESH ideas and opinions.

Time for a REAL CHANGE.

[brianp55]

Ben, Ben, Ben:

I enjoyed you in "The Mask", but try as you might, you just aren''t credible as one of the common folk.

[incog-nito]

"But I didn''t lose billions the way the top dogs at some banks did."

Ben Stein is a fool. The "top dogs" didn''t lose billions of THEIR money. They lost billions of other people''s money, some of which the TAXPAYER will have to pony up to bail them out. The "top dogs" still get their bonuses and golden parachutes no matter what.

[carolw05]

Ben Stein is an elitist pretending not to be one. He certainly doesn''t speak to most of the country that is suffering economically and would have us forgive the corporations and republican party that has been the most destructive and corrupt in our nations history...love your show but it is time for him to get off the air...he is so biased!

Stein is a book smart guy that never espoused an original or critical thought in his life. His comments on any subject is of no consequence to me.

[cbsnewsrocks]

Where everything is commoditized -- including compassion, charity, public service, and even conventional moralit -- everything is reduced in the end to how it can be sold for on the market. If society isn''t inherently good, there is no reason that otherwise good things, such as compassion, charity, public service, and morality, should be deemed value to those with the means to purchase them. Quite to the contrary.

So, it doesn''t take much to realize that the morally ambiguous world we live in has only resulted in the strengthening of those who already have the sole remaining source of happiness -- those who are already rich, and will do everything they can to stay that way.

[cbsnewsrocks]

Unfettered capitalism (whether or not it''s true that Ben Stein has supported it, and that''s something I have no idea is true or not) is a powerful means for good OR for not-so-good. Some people are willing to bet it all on the market -- they''ll make a mint when the market rises and not care if it falls. But that doesn''t include everyone. If you''re not a Wall Street type, tough luck.

But if you are, then good news! You''re one of the happy few. You can literally buy happiness, or at least rent it for a reasonable price.

The problem with unfettered capitalism is that it lets down everyone who doesn''t feel comfortable with the idea that the capital markets should be allowed every possible freedom regardless of the desires of the risk-averse. The sole fail-safe in a maximally capitalistic society is the ability of the government to enforce contracts and to punish crimes. Since the government, like any human endeavor, is imperfect, these slender instrumentalities often fail, and when they do, disaster strikes, and they often do.

[cbsblogger]

Ben Stein has always been a vocal supporter of the unfettered, unregulated, corporatist capitalism that is destroying the USA and especially the middle class, to the short term benefit of those he criticizes in this article.

[ubrew12]

Some great advice Stein gave me through a book I read 20 years ago:
"If you don''t know who you are, the Stock Market is an expensive place to find out"

Stein is a book smart guy that never espoused an original or critical thought in his life. His comments on any subject is of no consequence to me.

[veteran188]

Stein''s support for all things right wing is a big part

of why things got so bad, Reagan, trickle down, all, in

reality, republiCON schemes to get rich

[boffo1962]

You''re a sensible man, Ben Stein! :