million jobs short of full employment, a truly staggering number. here to help us make sense of this is ben stein, author of the little book of bulletproof investing and the famed economics teacher of one ferris bueller. bueller? bueller? bueller? welcome, ben it s a pleasure. where is that ferris bueller? where is he? investing somewhere. yes, exactly. i m pretending to be in your class and i m the dumbest student you got so i want you to explain something to me. the unemployment rate is down so that means fewer people are unemployed but at the same time the labor force declined, meaning fewer people are working. so how does that happen at the same time? well, when we have a recession as severe as the current one, a lot of people become discouraged, unhappy, maybe they re not the main breadwinner, maybe a child is partially supported by the
here to help us make sense of this is ben stein, author of the little book of bulletproof investing and the famed economics teacher of one ferris bueller. bueller? bueller? bueller? welcome, ben it s a pleasure. where is that ferris bueller? where is he? investing somewhere. yes, exactly. i m pretending to be in your class and i m the dumbest student you got so i want you to explain something to me. the unemployment rate is down so that means fewer people are unemployed but at the same time the labor force declined, meaning fewer people are working. so how does that happen at the same time? well, when we have a recession as severe as the current one, a lot of people become discouraged, unhappy, maybe they re not the main breadwinner, maybe a child is partially supported by the parents and those people simply leave the labor force.
ben stein. author of the little book of bulletproof investing. our pal stephanie miller, progressive talk radio host of her own program. alfonse yes aguilar, latino partnership for conservative principles. ayear sha tyler, actress and activist. ben what about the ruling? she s just a person who puts on a robe. she doesn t necessarily know any more than the next person. there will be lots of other larry: what s your point then? my point is this is just the beginning of a long complicated process. it will be decided by the principles of the next set of judges. it s incredibly unbelievably difficult problem to solve. no judge is going to solve it overnight. larry: you have no opinion on the injunction? i think the injunction was silly. i don t put much faith in it because it s not going to last long. somebody will dissolve it and put in a new set of principles. the supreme court will almost at some point overrule it.
larry: let s meet our panel. ben stein is an economist, former presidential speechwriter, columnist, fortune magazine. author of the little book of bulletproof investing. stephanie miller. talk radio host of her own program. dana lash is co-founder of the st. louis tea party and a talk radio host as well of the dana show. and nancy giles, social commentator and performer, and contributor to cbs sunday morning. let s go around. reaction to this dispute. it s interesting. i know lots of people in the tea party movement. i ve never heard one racist word out of any of them. i was quite suspicious about it to start with. i thought it must be some kind of cover for racist feelings. i ve questioned people very close to me about it, very intensely. never heard a racist word. larry: what do you make of that billboard? it was the act of a very,
students. it is a really curious thing to deeply unfortunate number. say about teachers who we are about 20 million jobs supposedly aren t capable of short of full employment, a truly staggering number. imparting the notion of here to help us make sense of something having happened in the this is ben stein, author of past and shedding light on the the little book of bulletproof students and implies that black people aren t capable of understanding they re different investing and the famed forms of the n-word and apparent investment teacher of one ferris in, for example, the word it s used among young, black men and buehller. i take it as a grand insult to welcome, ben. it s a pleasure. black people. where is that ferris? i imagine an editing room with where is he? investing somewhere. the mouths pursed and taking the word out and replacing it with exactly. i m pretending to be in your slave and thinking that s class and i m the dumbest showing they re good people when it