Items by By BEN STEIN
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Everybody’s Business: Good Intentions Aside, Are We Killing the Patient?
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 12:27am EDT by By BEN STEIN
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Perhaps the Obama administration is trying too hard to solve too many problems at once.
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Everybody’s Business: Decline and Fall: A View From 2089
Posted: May 23rd, 2009, 11:51pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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How a healthy economy fell apart, as detailed in an excerpt from “The Decline and Fall of the United States of America.”
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Everybody’s Business: The Sales Profession: Attention Must Still Be Paid
Posted: April 25th, 2009, 4:49pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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From a summer job at Shoe Giant, a lifetime of lessons about selling.
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Everybody’s Business: When an Economic Cure Fights Itself
Posted: April 11th, 2009, 11:22pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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The government stimulus is meant to add to spending, but as more Americans fear the growing debt, they may be apt to save more and spend less.
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Everybody’s Business: Tell Us the Future. Then Again, Don’t.
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 4:02pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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We all want to know what’s ahead. But the contretemps between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer is a reminder that life evades accurate predictions.
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Everybody’s Business: Don’t Blame the Business Trip
Posted: March 21st, 2009, 6:44pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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Taxpayers are outraged when bailed-out companies send executives on lavish business trips. But most out-of-town business meetings are productive.
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Everybody’s Business: How to Deal With a 3 A.M. Fear
Posted: March 7th, 2009, 4:03pm EST by By BEN STEIN
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Three possible changes to market rules that might help stop the relentless downward push on securities.
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Everybody’s Business: In the Financial Crisis, Ordinary People vs. Extraordinary Problems
Posted: January 10th, 2009, 7:06pm EST by By BEN STEIN
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The problems we face now are so large that they humble the average and the above average and even the very much above average.
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Everybody’s Business: They Told Me That Madoff Never Lost Money
Posted: December 27th, 2008, 2:50pm EST by By BEN STEIN
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A little delegation from a major investment bank said a money manager of stupendous acumen never lost money.
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Everybody’s Business: Obama’s Team Isn’t Exactly a Break With the Past
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 1:11am EST by By BEN STEIN
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How is the choice of Timothy F. Geithner, the pre-eminent careerist of old-time finance, “change you can believe in”?
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Everybody’s Business: What if a Slowdown Is a Never-Ending Story?
Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 4:26pm EST by By BEN STEIN
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This time it’s different. The economy is breaking the patterns of previous downturns.
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Everybody’s Business: Fear and Loathing in La Jolla
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 3:31pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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The Wall Street-Treasury-Federal Reserve axis is hated, loathed and feared by an angry mob of investors in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla.
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Everybody’s Business: In Financial Food Chains, Little Guys Can’t Win
Posted: September 27th, 2008, 5:23pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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Millions of us did nothing wrong, according to the accepted wisdom of the age. We saved. Now we have had the rug pulled out from under us.
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Everybody’s Business: Where to Direct All That Rage
Posted: September 14th, 2008, 1:18am EDT by By BEN STEIN
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Washington is not the problem. Human nature is the problem, and that’s going to be a tough nut to crack. That’s the machine to rage against.
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Everybody’s Business: Obama’s Questionable Stimulus Plan
Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:16am EDT by By BEN STEIN
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The effects of stimulus plans are debatable, and financing them by taxing oil companies, whose shareholders for the most part are not rich, does not seem fair.
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Everybody’s Business: Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 3:16pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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If economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services, what could be scarcer or more precious than love?
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Everybody’s Business: Can the Fed Answer All the Alarms?
Posted: June 21st, 2008, 11:36pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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Since World War II, there have been two major economic discontinuities in this country. The Fed did the right thing one time out of two.
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Everybody’s Business: When You Weren’t Looking, They Were Working
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 11:11pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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Coming across a draft of a memoir my father was working on before he died, I realized I had never known how hard his work had been for a number of years in middle age.
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Everybody’s Business: Running Out of Fuel, but Not Out of Ideas
Posted: May 24th, 2008, 2:44pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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As I watch the drama about gasoline and oil prices play out on the streets and in the news media, some images and memories come to mind.
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Everybody’s Business: Wall Street, Run Amok
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 11:19pm EDT by By BEN STEIN
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How did all of the mechanisms operated by the mind-bogglingly well-paid men and women of the Street go so wrong? -
Essay: In the Boardroom, Every Back Gets Scratched
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 10:30am EDT by By BEN STEIN
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According to the Congressional Research Service, average pay for chief executives stood at 179 times average worker pay in 2005, up from a multiple of 90 in 1994.