[dennisw]

Ben Stein wrote this piece
Ben Stein is always confident and sunny about America and our economy

Yet this piece ranks up there with the best gloom and doomers. I’ll bet Stein lost big money on some stocks and started talking to the right people and got shocked into reality

There’s a great You Tube video of Peter Schiff taking on the Ben Stein and others on TV a few years ago. Schiffs predictions were dead on

[Travis McGee]

That's a sea change, when the permaoptimists like Stein, ardent believers in “American exceptional ism” as the magic elixir that cures all ills, comes over to the G&D side.