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Ben Stein: Writing
Stein began his career as a speechwriter and lawyer for United States President Richard Nixon, and later for President Gerald Ford. He regularly denies being Deep Throat.
His efforts at film and television screenwriting have largely been for naught, though he is notable for his script
Murder in Mississippi and contributed to the creation of the well-liked TV comedy Fernwood 2-Night, among other works.
A prodigious writer, Stein has written books on several topics including economics, and is a vocal supporter of the Republican Party. He writes a regular column in the conservative magazine The American Spectator
. Stein has also written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal
, New York Magazine
, Los Angeles Magazine
and Barron's Magazine, where his discussion of the Michael Milken Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond situation as well as the ethical dimensions of management buyouts attracted heavy US national attention in the 1980s and '90s. Stein is also a pro-life activist and was given a Pro-Life Award in 2003 by the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund.
His book titles to date (7 fiction, 9 nonfiction) include:*
DREEMZ (1978)*
The View from Sunset Boulevard: America as brought to you by the people who make television (1979)*
Ludes (1982)*
Financial Passages (1985)*
Hollywood Days, Hollywood Nights: the Diary of a Mad Screenwriter (1988)*
A License to Steal: the Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation (1992)*
How to Ruin Your Love Life (2003) ISBN 1401902405*
How to Ruin Your Financial Life (2004) ISBN 1401902413*
Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It (2004) ISBN 1401903339
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LiteratureIn 2007, pundits scoffing accurate predictions about the economy
I wonder what the other blowhard pundits seen here have to say about making fun of Euro Pacific Capital president Peter Schiff's accurate predictions in 2006 and 2007 about the economic meltdown and its causes? (Ben Stein should probably stick to his subject of expertise, which is claiming that "science leads you to killing people") This video sequence offers a compendium of appearances (covering the 2006-2007 period) by Euro Pacific Capital president Peter Schiff, who is a frequent -- and frequently disrespected -- talking head on cable news shows. What astonishes is not just the accuracy of his dour predictions about the economy but the sheer arrogance of every other person appearing on these programs. I don't know who comes off as worse -- the supremely snotty Ben Stein, or the well-named Arthur Laffer. I just wonder how Ben Stein feels about the financial markets as an investment now. This is an astonishing compilation of clips. It just keeps getting more outrageous as it goes along. Every time Schiff says something sensible, the pundits surrounding him snort and howl. They treat him with undisguised contempt and hatred, as though he had just called for ending the laws against homicide or reducing the age of consent to three. Peter Schiff was right...
Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:15 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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