ben stein? >> well, proposition 13 didn't ruing california. proposition 13 was a great step forward. the schools are a mess in california because we have so many hispanic, non-english-speaking immigrants. not because of prop 13. it's a matter of states' rights. >> i looked at the numbers. everybody cares about their gas prices because it affects our everyday lives. the folks in massachusetts as a result of this added gas tax would be spending about $300 more dollar as year. kiss away all of the benefits of those lower oil and gas prices good-bye. because that will wipe out any benefit the consumer in massachusetts has seen as a result of that. look, if you think that the government can spend thoses 3ds $300 better than you, write a letter. >> wow. are or e-mail. what are you doing to me? ladies, thank you. a lot of show, you took the time to join us. appreciate that. >> thank you. >>> up next, can congress actually make you money? doubt it. can our stock go ahead and put your bag right here. have a nice flight! traveling can feel like one big

but ben stein, what would that mean for all of the workers?en taut taught about economics is wrong, it means fewer workers would be employed. look, i love walmart. i love the people there. i am a daily walmart shopper when i'm up in idaho during the summer. those are the greatest people in the world who work at walmart. i'd like them to be paid more. but i don't want them to lose their jobs. and by the way, walmart employees between 1.3 and 1.4 million people. at most a couple hundred have demonstrated against walmart. those are college students and paid agitators. they have nothing to do with the people who work at walmart. >> in fact, i bet you a lot of people at walmart probably would love it to go away so to your point they don't lose their job. gary k., they never stop. walmart is a big juicy target. >> that's all it is. look, these protesters are just absolutely nuts. the fact is that walmart's full hourly wage is $13 already. there's only 6,000 of them that are at minimum wage and they're already fixing that up. walmart is the greatest

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ben stein on the ultimate price. >> henning,. >> osgood: in new hampshire yesterday, mourners gatheredwhat would have been james foley's 41st birthday to remember the american journalist beheaded by isis militants in syria. how our government deals with these brutal acts is the subject of our commentary, contributor ben stein. >> could anything be worse than being made to neal in the kneel in the sand, read a slammedder against your own country and then have a psychotic killer slowly cut your head off with a fairly small knife? you are all alone in the desert, in unspeakable fear and pain. >> as most of us know this is what recently happened to two americans, steven sotloff and james foley, both journalists at the hands of the horrifyingly cruel terror group, the so-called islamic state. the same horrific fate happened to two british aid workers, david haines and alan henning kidnapped recently by isis. >> according to news reports which could be wrong, part of the reason isis did these cruel acts was because the governments of the usa and the united kingdom refused to pay ran on the t

i've had this debate with ben stein for a decade. he thinks nobody can beat the market. well, all the information is out there. everybody knows it. the fact is, just because it's available doesn't mean people know it. in fact i don't think most professionals read it. jim, tell me where you come down on the market being efficient. who can beat the market if all the information is out there. >> in theory, absolutely. in reality and practice, absolutely not. all information is fully accurately and instantaneously, you know, reached at the same time in reality rationality, emotion, the conflicting theory would be bhairvel economics which shows how many people react to it. the efficient market theory, it assumes one thing, but in reality markets aren't efficient. investors act on wrong information that's where you start making money. charles: where do you think the market starts coming up short? tomorrow morning will be several stocks up 20 percent. why weren't they up 20 percent today? >> it's perfect. it doesn't mean it's perfect. it's there, but it doesn't mean it's perfec

to ben stein on what he makes of his low profile role so far. he has been the waldo of czars hi, see the ferris bueller of czars. klain, klain, klain, he doesn't show up. he doesn't have a wikipedia page. he is a a political hack, a guy used to put out fires. >> that's a little mean. that's a little fire. he has not had medical experience -- >> he has no distinguished role whatsoever in his biography. >> hack is extreme, ben. >> a democratic political operative who helped gore in the 2000. he has helped put out various fires within the democratic party. they're treating it as a matter of optics and politics. it's a matter of a virus. we need medical people, not political operatives. >> there are plenty of medical people in there, ben. my worry is they screwed up the initial response. so expertise only gets you so far. what i'm worried about is everyone is talking at the same time here. i don't know whether we need sort of a general honorary, the type of guy we had in the middle of katrina or someone who is clearly the point person or to tom ridg