Ben Stein (Los Angeles, CA) is a respected economist
who is known to many as a movie and television personality, but has worked more
in personal and corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written about
finance for Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, and Fortune; was one of the chief busters of the junk-bond
frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtime critic of corporate executives'
self-dealing; and has cowritten eight finance books.
Stein travels the country speaking about finance in both serious
and humorous ways, and is a regular contributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN,
and Fox News. He was the 2009 winner of the Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence
in Financial Journalism.