Benjamin Stein

Benjamin J. Stein 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 several finance books. Stein travels the country speaking about...See more

Benjamin J. Stein 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 several 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. See less