The wit and wisdom and more wit from America's best-known economist, personal finance expert, actor, writer and political commentator.
Ben Stein, a polymath famous and beloved for his iconic movie and tv roles, bestselling books and humorous writings and tv commentary, shares his views on love, money, politics and living the American Dream and how you too can lead an informed, politically sane, healthy, wealthy, and happy life full of love and family.
In his keen, perceptive, informative and always entertaining style, Stein shares his views on a life well lived and lessons learned, how to make the most of your money, prioritizing your family, and explores American culture and politics, the humorous, the heartbreaking, and the maddening.
In this collection of the best of Ben Stein's Newsmax DREEMZ columns, Stein shares his passionate opinions, stark warnings and thoughtful, sensitive musings on such varied topics as:
Love, Humor, Forgiveness, and Dogs Why Mistakes Happen When Government Gets Too Big The Miracles of Modern Life Why All's Fair in Politics and War Life's Cornerstones and Curveballs Why Anger and Hate Have No Place in Public Life The Economics of Love Why We Owe a Debt of Gratitude to Servicemen and Women TV's Brave New Reality: A United America Why the Government is Not Responsible for Your Success - You Are America: Why I Cherish this Unbelievable Gift And why ""These Are Not the End Times""
The World According to Ben Stein offers honest insights, humor and hope from one of the great humorists on political economy and how life works in this nation.
By:
Ben Stein
Imprint: Humanix Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781630061777
ISBN 10: 1630061778
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 16 April 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
"Select Ben Stein Newsmax DREEMZ articles since 2008 Ben's Life Lesssons > Stories, Observations & Daily Life The Blessings of a New Year - Every Year - Recounted Think of Me as a Wandering Minstral Life Teaches Timeless Lessons Cherish Your Moments - Before Time Slips Away Turning Points that Shaped My Life A Winter of Chilling Memories Fangs for the Memories Life's Cornerstones and Curveballs Be Grateful Even When Life Storms Around You Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Staying Sane - Step by Step A Lesson in Self-Reliance Out of Step in a World Without Connections Let's Wake Up. It's Vicious Out There. We Cannot Be Ignorant Living in the Twilight Zone Surviving in the Era of Hysteria Count Your Blessings in Times of Distress Our Principles Can Still Triumph Over Terror It's Everyone's Else's Fault' Era Still Thriving Struggling With Our Reality In Praise of Make-Believe Time to Shape Up or Ship Out The Future is Not Here Insanity at 30,000 Feet Find Order In the Chaos My Life's Highways, Revisited Traveling in America is a Joy. I'm Not Kidding Cars Put Us on the Road to Freedom Red Corvettes Forever! Nightmare on Highway 10 Sunday Terror on Highway 10 My California On a Magnificent Lake: Goodbye Crowds, Hello Clouds Scenes from Beverly Hills LA Is Beautiful But New York Has Just Gotten Uglier The Terrible California Wildfires What's Right With This Picture? Graham's Passing Highlights Our Spiritual Decline The New Boss Seems A Lot Like the Old Boss Be Thankful We Can Help Others These Are Not the End Times 'One Day at a Time' The Only Way In a Time of Plague Coronavirus Is Not the End of the World A Time for Unity and Prayer Mostly Sunny, With a Few Clouds The Miracles of Modern Life Light at the End of the Tunnel Pieces of Heaven Ben on Love, Marriage & Family The Economics of Love On Love, Humor, Forgiveness, and Dogs Ponder the Valuable Things in Life The Superstars of My Life A Tribute to Mother, She Fought For Me Love of Family Reigns Above All Money is Important But Love Comes First True Love - the Scarecest Commodity Marriage - Through Good Times and Bad A Letter to My New Grandaughter For the Sake of Your Loved Ones, Get Life Insurance Ben on Health, Aging & Addiction Aging Awakens You to Need for Quality Healthcare Addiction Has Taken Root in America Thank Double Standard on Alcohol, Drugs for Addictions Sobering Thoughts About Alcoholics Anonymous Marijuana Is a Cancer The Pain of Substance Abuse Lonely, Painful Road of Drugs and Alcohol No Booze. No Drugs. And a Grateful Heart. Make Anti-Ballistic Missiles Priority Over Healthcare Ben on Money & Personal Success I'm No Longer Rich, But God's Been Good Plan for a Secure Future Today Want a Better Life? Invest Spend Time in the Market - Not Timing the Market Annuities Safeguard Against Calamities Save Now, Live Better Nothing Beats Saving for a Rainy Day Prepare Now for an Economic Crisis Make An Escape Plan for Economic Crisis Stock Market Dive? Don't Panic No Substitute for Solid Retirement Planning Financial Planners Plan for Life No Way Around Skillful Money Management Flexibility, Ambition Needed in this Tough Economy Menial Jobs Better Than No Jobs Hard Work Reduces Income Inequality Government is Not Responsible for Your Success - You Are Ben on the American Dream & World Economy Story for Recessionary Times: An Empty House on the Water Mother's Economics 101 Let’s Let Capitalism Work Its Magic A Taxing Time for the Nation No New Taxes Govt Handouts Cannot Solve Nation's Problems Why Force Poor and Rich to Mix? Imperfect Free Market Better Than the Rest Don't Bankrupt the Economy - and the Constitution Insane Times Mean Drastic Measures for Nation's Money I Don't Know How to Revive Economy, Neither Do Democrats Rainy Day Economics The Next Financial Crash: Where Could It Come From? No Winners in a Trade War Economist's Legacy Endures Warren Buffett Is Proof Capitalism Works Warren Buffett Is Proof We Have a Great System New Skills, Not Obama's Pen, Will Raise Middle Class Raising Taxes Is the Adult Thing to Do Elites Threaten Free Enterprise System How Would We Redistribute Wealth? Don't Fear Corporations Thank You, Wall Street Ben's REAL American Heros Guts, Glory, Honor Veteran's Memorial Reminds Us of Our Blessings Honor Our Military Personnel We Owe Debt of Gratitude to Servicemen and Women Ode to Korean War Hero In Praise of Civil Servants The Cops Are the Real Stars New York Times Gets it All Wrong on Cops Killer Trump Is a True Hero Ben on Racism in America Hope for Black America Honor Miracle of Progress on Race We've Made Great Strides Against Bigotry New Orleans a Snapshot of Nation's Progress on Race Let's Not 'Exalt' America's Progress on Race We Remain a Nation Torn Over Racism Racism Is About Real, Not Imagined Persecution Blacks Struggle Under Lack of Leadership Blacks on TV - Life Doesn't Imitate Art Democrats Engage in Race Baiting Despite Decent Economy, Democrats Focus on Race Charleston Murders a Call for Prayer Power Mob Rule Prosecution Won't Solve Baltimore Race Problem Sharpton Is Fanning the Flames Ferguson Rioters Have No Excuse Oscars Are About Talent, Not Race Election Exposes Racial Divide Reparations May Be Constitutionally Unfeasible Ben on Climate Change & the Environment Time to Question Climate Change Let's Have a Serious Debate on Global Warming The Price We Pay for Energy Obama's Imagined Climate Fight Easier Than Real Terror War Obama's Flawed Climate Policy Caps Jobs, Not Emissions What Does DiCaprio Know About the Climate? Ben on the Media, News & Entertainment Finding Myself An Outcast in Hollywood Manhandling Hollywood TV's Brave New Reality: A United America TV News Good at Stirring Up Fear, Resentment TV ‘Pornografication’ at New Heights It's the Media vs. the Constitution Media Don't Sing Praises of Free Market Rabid Media Took Down Nixon - Trump is Next Judgmental Journalists Should Be Judged Disgusting Rise of Profanity in America's Public Square Porn Too Easily Accessible American Politics Mistakes Happen When Govt Gets Too Big Don't Rely on Politiciams to Fix This Mess All's Fair in Politics and War Anger and Hate Have No Place in Public Life Lockdowns Are Not America Words Really Mattered Under McCarthyism Three Major Constitutional Assaults Since 1973 - This One's Worst Time to Vacate Tyranny of Administrative Law Sanctuary Cities Spit on the Constitution No Civilian Needs an AR-15 - Period Denying Private Citizens AR-15s Common Sense, Not Control Time to End Homelessness Saving Freedom, Peace Is Not Free Cut Back on Defense Spending? Now? Democrats' War of Hoaxes Democrats Must Do Better Than Using Hate Card Bernie Sanders Says What His Party Feels My Questions for the President Is This the Presidential Leadership We Deserve? We Need Another Ronald Reagan Ben on Freedom, Democracy & the American Dream Where is the ""United"" States of America? Welcome to America The Best America On the Road and Enjoying Americana Deep in the Heart of the Heartland The South - the Way It's Supposed to Be America: Why I Cherish this Unbelievable Gift One Choice in the Two Americas Differences Aside, America is Still the Blessed Land The Fight to Save America Wake Up America: We're at War We Are Fighting to Save the World's Greatest Country A Free Society Needs Policing The Sum of America's Progress and Pitfalls Daylight in America Time to Be Proud of America True Freedom Uniquely American Tossing Freedoms Leaves People Out Prosperity and Democracy Are Big Things to Lose Hostile Nations Want Orwell's Dark Vision for Us Our Principles Can Still Triumph Over Terror World War II Horrors Remind Us, America a Blessing Dramatic Military Cuts Leave Us Vulnerable Mistakes US Repeats Begin With Good Intentions Let's Not Forget US Homegrown Terror Threat Lockdowns Are Not America Democrats Still Blind to America the Beautiful Are We Better Off Than 50 Years Ago?"
Ben Steinis the most famous economics teacher in America. His comedic role as the droning economics teacher inFerris Bueller's Day Offis by far the most widely viewed scene of economics teaching in economics history and has been ranked as one of the fifty most famous scenes in movie history. But in real life, Ben Stein is a powerful thinkers on economics, politics, education and history and motivation and like his father, Herbert Stein, considered one of the great humorists on political economy and how life works in this nation. Stein in real life has a bachelor's with honors in economics from Columbia, studied econ at the graduate level at Yale, is a graduate of Yale Law School ( valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates in 1970), and has as diverse a resume as any man in America. His background includes...poverty lawyer for poor people in New Haven, trade regulation lawyer for the FTC, speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford, columnist and editorial writer forThe Wall Street Journal, columnist forThe New York Times, teacher about law and economics at UC, Santa Cruz and Pepperdine. Stein was the 2009 winner of the Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. Stein was the co-host, along with Jimmy Kimmel, of the pathbreaking Comedy Central game show,Win Ben Stein's Money, which won seven Emmys, including ones for Ben and Jimmy for best game show host(s); surely making him the only well-known economist to win an Emmy. Presently, he writes a column forThe American Spectatorand forNewsMax, and is a regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, Newsmax TV and on CBSSunday Morning. Stein has written or co-written roughly 30 books, mostly about investing, many of themNew York Timesbestsellers, including:The Capitalist Code: It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich andThe Peacemaker: Nixon: the Man, President and My Friend. He lives and works in the Los Angeles metro area. https://www.mrbenstein.com/ https://www.newsmax.com/insiders/benstein/bio-39/
Reviews for The World According to Ben Stein: Wit, Wisdom & Even More Wit
Praise for The Capitalist Code: It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich by Ben Stein My friend, Ben Stein, has written a short book that tells you everything you need to know about investing (and in words you can understand). Follow Ben's advice and you will do far better than almost all investors (and I include pension funds, universities and the super-rich) who pay high fees to advisors. -- Warren Buffett In The Capitalist Code, the latest in a series of books aimed at younger readers with whom he [Ben Stein] has established a unique rapport, his intention is to talk about basic investing in a down-to-earth and commonsensical way, the prose always direct and straightforward, never abstract or complex. -- The Washington Times Praise for The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life by Ben Stein & Phil DeMuth There's a wealth of common sense contained in this new entry into Wiley's popular Little Book series. It gets the essentials of successful investing right, and the authors' 'Tangent' portfolios present an interesting appraisal of historic returns. While I'm not at all sure that they (or anything else) are 'bulletproof, ' enjoy the interesting and zippy read, and draw your own conclusions. John C. Bogle, founder and former chief, The Vanguard Group Ben and Phil have pulled off a seemingly impossible feat: a concise, comprehensive financial guide that goes down like chocolate mousse. Many readers will laugh, some will cry, few will be able to put it down, and all will be better off for the experience, both financially and personally. William Bernstein, investment advisor and author of The Investor's Manifesto and A Splendid Exchange Most investing books tell you all the tricks to get rich. They lie. Ben and Phil tell you there aren't any tricks, just some common sense that somehow eludes most people. They tell you not to let your own behavioral biases kill you. To stay diversified. To make small tilts in the direction of assets that other people's biases make them shun. And many more. Mostly, and this one is my piece of common sense, don't waste your money on tons of investing books, but buy this one. Clifford Asness, Managing and Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management Ben and Phil have written a bunch of investment books, and I've read them all, but this one is their shortest AND their best. Stein and DeMuth have indeed found the Holy Grail of Investing. The chart on page 79 proves it. I salute them. Mark Skousen, Editor of Forecasts & Strategies Praise For The Little Book of Alternative Investments: Reaping Rewards by Daring to be Different by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth They've reported, I've decided. There is an investment strategy beyond stocks. Leave it to Ben and Phil to lead us through it. Little book? Try, big insight. -- Neil Cavuto, Fox News and Fox Business Ben and Phil have done it again. Another lucid, insightful book, designed to enhance your wealth! In today's stock-addled cult of equities, there is a gaping hole in most investors' portfolios...the whole panoply of alternative investments that can simultaneously help us cut our risk, better hedge our inflation risk, and boost our return. This Little Book is filled with big ideas on how to make these markets and strategies a treasured part of our investing toolkit. -- Robert Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates I have been reading Ben Stein for thirty-five years and Phil DeMuth since he joined up with Ben ten years ago. They do solid work, and this latest is no exception. -- Jim Rogers, author of A Gift to My Children If anyone can make hedge funds sexy, Stein and DeMuth can, and they've done it with style in this engaging, instructive, and tasteful how-to guide for investing in alternatives. But you should read this Kama Sutra of investment manuals not just for the thrills, but also to learn how to avoid the hazards of promiscuous and unprotected investing. -- Andrew Lo, Professor and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering A great little book for investors who are trying to improve their asset allocation. Lots of meat and fun to read. -- Brenda Jubin, Ph.D., Seeking Alpha Chock full of easy to digest information, useful advice, specific fund recommendations and it is a hoot and a holler to read. Not a dull page in it. And it will tell you just about everything you need to know about these essential alternative investment portfolio diversifiers. -- Consuelo Mack, WealthTrack
- Winner of Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism 2009 (United States)
