I griped before about those sleazy credit report ads with Ben Stein that were appearing all over the site. Well, they seem to have had one fortunate effect: they got Ben Stein fired for ethics violations from his gig at the New York Times.
The NYT has yet to explain why they thought Stein could usefully contribute a column on economics in the first place, however.
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