Comments on: There’s blood in the streets…and Ben Stein is manning the barricades http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:02:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: dbvader http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-7003 dbvader Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:33:02 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-7003 Ben Stein isn't the great free-market economist that the media makes him out to be. He is a lawyer. While as an attorney he worked for the FTC, he has no training in economics. He tends to offer platitudes as economic analysis. He is the same whether he is praising capitalism or attacking it. He doesn't have the background to be considered a serious critic. Also, in the context of economics, working for Nixon is not shorthand for being conservative. Nixon supported price and wage restrictions and a national health care plan. Ben Stein isn’t the great free-market economist that the media makes him out to be. He is a lawyer. While as an attorney he worked for the FTC, he has no training in economics. He tends to offer platitudes as economic analysis. He is the same whether he is praising capitalism or attacking it. He doesn’t have the background to be considered a serious critic.

Also, in the context of economics, working for Nixon is not shorthand for being conservative. Nixon supported price and wage restrictions and a national health care plan.

]]> By: V06 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-6793 V06 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:17:15 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-6793 Ben Stein is a modern day Renaissance man. Son of a noted economist, Pulitzer prize winning political speech writer for Trot Nixon's dad, Richard; Oscar winning actor for his moving performance in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; not to mention the seven Emmy awards for "Win Ben Stein's Money" with an up-and-coming Jimmy Kimmel as his Man Friday. And how can you forget the Nobel Prize he won for "The difference is clear...Dry Eyes? Clear Eyes."? This is the only hope we have to save capitalism as we know it. "In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone? ...the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ...raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. 'Voodoo' economics. " Ben Stein is a modern day Renaissance man. Son of a noted economist, Pulitzer prize winning political speech writer for Trot Nixon’s dad, Richard; Oscar winning actor for his moving performance in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”; not to mention the seven Emmy awards for “Win Ben Stein’s Money” with an up-and-coming Jimmy Kimmel as his Man Friday. And how can you forget the Nobel Prize he won for “The difference is clear…Dry Eyes? Clear Eyes.”?

This is the only hope we have to save capitalism as we know it.

“In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone? …the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? …raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. ‘Voodoo’ economics. “

]]> By: crimsonohsix http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-6775 crimsonohsix Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:19:29 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-6775 that was the best episode of scrubs ever. that was the best episode of scrubs ever.

]]> By: archie http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-6742 archie Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:04 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/01/29/theres-blood-in-the-streetsand-ben-stein-is-manning-the-barricades/#comment-6742 So Ben Stein says the sky is falling. I've pretty much had it with Dylan references. Up until about a year ago, they were still pretty cool. Now, every dork in America is using them (including you Seth). There's even a weekly Dylan "scoop" on Page Six in The Post ("my sister loved Bob Dylan but aborted his child, then she turned to heroin"). Dylan is so mainstream right now that he could probably win American Idol at 65 years old. And when eulogizing Trot Nixon -- please don't forget to mention his misjudging Jeter's routine fly into a double with one out and nobody on in the 8th inning of Game 7 of the '03 ALCS. So Ben Stein says the sky is falling. I’ve pretty much had it with Dylan references. Up until about a year ago, they were still pretty cool. Now, every dork in America is using them (including you Seth). There’s even a weekly Dylan “scoop” on Page Six in The Post (”my sister loved Bob Dylan but aborted his child, then she turned to heroin”). Dylan is so mainstream right now that he could probably win American Idol at 65 years old.

And when eulogizing Trot Nixon — please don’t forget to mention his misjudging Jeter’s routine fly into a double with one out and nobody on in the 8th inning of Game 7 of the ‘03 ALCS.

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