Columnist Ben Stein

Just in case your blood pressure is not high enough today, here are a few news bulletins on how the world works. Generally, these bulletins all come under the heading of, "The Golden Rule: He Who Has the Gold, Makes the Rules." You will

The Internet is an amazing learning tool. Sometimes it is so amazing it simply smacks you right between the eyes, like getting hit with a two-by-four. A short while ago, I said in a public forum that while I did not doubt that in a society as rich as

My training in economics was in theories and in history. Like all students of economics, I was trained in Keynesian economics. This basically holds that it is possible, contra Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Jean-Baptiste Say, the great geniuses of

So, Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to life plus a century and a quarter in federal prison for destroying the lives of thousands -- tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands -- of innocent men and women. That's a good thing, and I think we can

I received an odd request by email recently; it came from a lecture bureau in Canada, where I often speak. The bureau wanted to know if I could speak to a certain commercial real estate group, but first I had to definitively answer several questions: