[aruanan]

Stein isn’t really conservative; he isn’t an economist (although his father was a well known Keynesian); and his opinions don’t matter. Stein is, however, an actor.

Thanks for showing us so thoroughly your heel, achilles.

Here's the real deal, unlike your off-the-cuff supposing:

He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates. He also studied in the graduate school of economics at Yale. He has worked as an economist at The Department of Commerce, a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., a university adjunct at American University in Washington, D.C., at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. At American U. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture. He taught the same subject at UCSC, as well as about political and civil rights under the Constitution. At Pepperdine, he has taught about libel law and about securities law and ethical issues since 1986.

[GlockThe Vote]

In 2007 he said there were no problems in the subprime re market. Fail!

[achilles2000]

A B.A. in economics and a low level job for a short period of time at Commerce makes you an economist? Or is it being a lawyer that makes him an economist? Where is his list of peer reviewed articles in economics?

His father, who served on Nixon’s Council of Economic Advisors, was a professional economist . Ben Stein is nothing of the sort.