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Preston on Politics: Bueller? Bueller? -- McCain needs Rove

Ben Stein says he knows how Sen. John McCain can win in November: Karl Rove.

Money Magazine: Ben Stein: What, him worry?

It's safe to say, without even fact checking, that Ben Stein is the only New York Times weekly economics columnist who has won seven Emmys as the host of a TV game show ("Win Ben Stein's Money"). He's the only personal-finance author (latest book: "Yes, You Can Supercharge Your Portfolio!") who is stopped in public by ordinary people and praised for his movie acting (most memorably, as the comically boring teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off").

Fortune: Tales of the crash of 2007

It doesn't look to me as if there will be a recession - at least not a major recession - from the subprime problems or the credit crunch or any of that panic on Wall Street. But there are effects rippling all over the place right here and now, and some of them are not what you might expect (though some are).

Fortune: QUESTIONS FOR ... BEN STEIN

IT'S NO LONGER POSSIBLE to win Ben Stein's money. But there is one thing we can gain from the actor-cum-economist: financial advice served up with a dose of humor. FORTUNE's Ellen Florian Kratz asked Stein to answer your questions about retirement, his homebuying addiction, and his dislike of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.

Fortune: HOW TO RUN A BUDGET LIKE AN IDIOT

NEW CENSUS DATA show that the top 1% of U.S. earners now take home a greater share of national income than at any time since the height of the go-go 1920s. The top 300,000 earners together receive almost as much income as the bottom 150 million. Democrats inhale these facts and breathe out fire. Republicans say, "Hey, this is no time to be complacent. With a little effort we can push this closer to Louis XVI levels of inequality!"

Fortune: Ben Stein's perfect portfolio

It's no longer possible to win Ben Stein's money. But there is one thing we can gain from the actor-cum-economist: financial advice served up with a dose of humor. Fortune's Ellen Florian Kratz asked Stein to answer Fortune readers' questions about retirement and added some of her own regarding his homebuying addiction and his dislike of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.

Fortune: Step away from the exotic mortgage

Of all the nonsense that the boom has wrought, little has been crazier than the proliferation of adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, often called exotic mortgages because so few people understand them.

Tyrrell: Hollywood's blind spot

Darn, I missed the Oscars again. I adore gory spectacles. If cockfights were legal I would be there. Even bear-baiting would not be too gruesome for me. Yet somehow I always miss Oscar night.

EW Review: Charming 'Ferris Bueller'

It's the rare film that charms both Kurt Cobain and Dan Quayle, but like Ferris Bueller himself -- who was popular with sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, and d---heads alike -- director John Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" appealed to just about everyone.

CNNMoney: Are you ready for retirement?

If you want to get scared, listen to Ben Stein, chairman of Retirement Planning Week, which kicks off Monday.

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