October 2012
Beginner
160 pages
1h 49m
English
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About the Author
Ben Stein is the son of noted economist and writer, Herbert Stein, and Mildred Stein, also an economist.
He studied economics at Columbia and also at Yale where he earned a law degree. He worked as an economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and as a writer about economics for the Bureau of National Affairs. He has been a trial lawyer, a speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford, a teacher of Law and Economics at Pepperdine, and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Sunday Business Section.
He wrote extremely long analyses of financial misconduct and market anomalies for Barron’s for many years. He has been an expert witness in many federal and state securities fraud cases. He has written over a dozen books on investing, including most recently many books on finance co-written with Phil DeMuth, many of which became New York Times best sellers.
He is a regular commentator on finance for Fox News and a frequent guest on CNN. He also has been a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning for some years. He speaks frequently to investor groups. He lives in Southern California with his wife of many years, Alexandra Denman.
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