Completely agree with you! Just anoter loud mouth that doesnt know anything. And he claims to be 35 years old? Maybe 55.. Ever see those lines in his face? I imagine those lines will be like property easement lines now! LOL Unless of course he is Dylan Button.
That's the main thing I got from him too the past months. It's nice to see any media person speak up. Dare I say even Cramer seems a little more conscious about such things after being on Stewart. Heck, I was surprised the other day when Cramer said something like hedge fund managers think you are all stupid, and that those managers aren't very smart themselves. That statement has some Mad Money self-promoting in it, but still. What I don't get is some of the Kudlow bashing. I guess he was different awhile ago before I watched CNBC, but someone made the comment that Kudlow seemed to remember how the market is supposed to be after his interview with Ron Paul last year, and, since then, he's more like an outspoken Libertarian than a cheerleader. They're not all cheerleaders all the time, at least. I think it was Erin Burnett who, going into a commercial break after a GM story, said under her breath something like, "Heaven forbid we let a business fail in this country...." Oh yeah, and I did a double-take the other week when they were going around the table on Fast Money for stock picks and the blonde chick said she has never read a stock chart and doesn't know how.
How come he's still with the NBC network? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-dylan-ratigans-move-to-msnbc-hurt-cnbc
Never really had an opinion on Ratigan until I heard this interview where he aggressively and passionately speaks some absolute truths (never mind that it's on a goldbug radio show; focus instead on Ratigan's message, and not the context of the show): http://radio.goldseek.com/shows/2009/03.28.2009/GSR-03.28.09-c.mp3 I don't know if we was sincere or not, but if he was, my respect for the man grew exponentially.
I can't stand CNBC or the 95% of the people they have working for them, but Ratigan was one of the few that grew on me. He comes across as a more straight forward guy. He always tries to do a good job of laying out the issues on fast money. I also hate bitchy back stabbing %#$(ts in the corporate environment who try to take a $hit on the "nice guys". So props to Ratigan for taking his beef on air. haha
Ratigan is a complete douchebag. I want everyone to watch this video but PARTICULARLY the last one minute. You'll also need to read the lengthy disclaimer at the end of the video. I happened to watch Fast Money live that day. (10/7/08) Guest, Steve Cortes-a VERY smart trader from Chicago-ended a lengthy interview with a criticism of Obama's tax policies. Cortes's call was MONEY. Cortes basically said "these October lows are a generational opportunity except if Obama wins." In the last piece of the interview which has been DELETED -with said disclaimer taking it's place-Ratigan went APESHIT. "I've said we're not going to be mentioning the election here anymore, those comments are unwelcome and out of place and I'd like to apologize to our viewers." Kid you not! value="http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/894082391/code/cnbcplayershare"/> <embed name="cnbcplayer" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" height="380" width="400" quality="best" wmode="transparent" scale="noscale" salign="lt" src="http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/894082391/code/cnbcplayershare" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /> </object>
I watched it live too. Other than his normal obnoxious fast paced yelling, he didn't come across as going ape shit to me. What I took from it was he didn't want the show used to push political agendas, left or right. Maybe he's a bleeding heart liberal or right wing fanatic, but I never felt like I was watching Fox News or MSNBC with Fast Money.
Well his reaction was over the top enough that it was DELETED and replaced with the "disclaimer", eh? If someone doesn't want to discuss the link between political policy and markets then they're in the wrong business.
Bill Griffith, Sue Herrera, Joe Kernan...etc..etc....Faber is right up there. Make 2 million if it's a dime.