ben stein

    By Bruce Watson

    | 3:30PM 9/22/2011
    Earlier this week, Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) complained that he only netted $600,000 in 2010, and thus couldn't afford to pay higher taxes: "Class warfare never created a job," said Fleming. Former Obama administration official Elizabeth Warren, now running for the Senate, is ready with the counter-argument.

    By Aaron Crowe

    | 1:00PM 7/20/2010
    Ben Stein is losing it. At 65, the economist, actor, writer and funny guy is either having a senior moment and forgot to think before writing in The American Spectator about the unemployed, or as a millionaire with homes in Beverly Hills and Malibu is so far removed from reality that he hasn't met...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 12:30PM 10/08/2009
    Ben Stein is a droll little fellow, and apparently not without a sense of irony. In the new issue of Fortune, the former Nixon speechwriter and game show host asks, "Does Dick Parsons Have a Conflict of Interest?" Stein's answer: Yes. Parsons, the former chairman of Time Warner (TWX) (which, as...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 7:00PM 8/12/2009
    The New York Times has terminated Ben Stein's monthly business column over concerns about his endorsement deal with FreeScore.com, a FreeCreditReport.com-like website that offers users access to their free online credit report while also trying to sell a slew of credit monitoring services. The...