Kernen

Joe Kernen is a man who interviewed hundreds of stock analysts from the largest brokerage houses from 1998 to 2002.

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Watching the Hollywood mega-hit "WALL-E" with his daughter, Mr. Kernen discovers not only wonderfully rendered animation but a philippic targeting consumer capitalism.

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Joe Kernen joked: "Who's Mike Mayo, and do we know whether he was turned down for a car loan?"

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For all his good sense, though, Mr. Kernen can slip into hyperbole.

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Despite the book's Ann Coulter-like subtitle—"Defending Our Kids From the Liberal Assault on Capitalism"—Mr. Kernen isn't a fire-breathing conservative or Ron Paul-obsessed libertarian but a stout defender of the efficacy of Adam Smith's "invisible hand."

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According to Mr. Kernen, market skepticism suffuses popular culture.

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Such disapproval is not merely hypocritical and incoherent, says Joe Kernen, but wrong on the merits.

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Those who find economic treatises eye-glazing, and yet want to be armed with answers when their child demands to know why the rich aren't paying their "fair share" of taxes, may want to set Hayek aside, for now, and turn to Joe Kernen instead.

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But Mr. Kernen overreaches when he accuses "The Incredibles"—an animated film about plucky superheroes and No. 2 on National Review's list of "best conservative films of the past 25 years"—of trafficking in progressive propaganda.

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The Kernen mantra that we should just "get government out of the way" disguises the problem with misdirection.

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