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Article: Win Ben Stein's Account: If Your Investment Ideas Fly, He'll Invest $20,000.
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- On Wall Street
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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This is a real contest. Ben Stein is willing to open an account with you - maybe even accounts with three OWS readers. Propose an idea or approach, he'll review it, and if he likes your proposal, he'll invest up to $20,000 per account. Look for contest rules on page 42.
Ben Stein is not your typical high-net-worth investor. He is not a corporate executive. And he's not a trust fund baby: While his father was noted economist Herbert Stein, who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under Presidents Nixon and Ford, the elder Stein was an academic for most of his career.
Stein is not even a small business owner in the conventional sense. He ...