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"Greedy Bastards": A Review of Dylan Ratigan's views on the Financial Crisis
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 12:31am | 1039Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC's financial expert, has written a book about how markets have become perverse. It is an interesting example of how strange “competition” has become. One oddity presented itself on the cover of the package in which the book arrived. The cover proclaimed “Simon & Schuster...
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Your Congressman Takes Bribes
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 5:13pm | 1366I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! --Captain Renault, Casablanca Would you walk away from $500,000 a year to work to make America a better place? Jimmy Williams did. Williams, now the Executive Directory of Get Money Out, is the lobbyist-turned-activist whose...
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Dear Occupiers: Obama is NOT Your Friend
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 1:16pm | 1082The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. -- Galadriel, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring I was up late last night, thinking about something that Dylan Ratigan said on Benzinga Radio...
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Dylan Ratigan Talks Reform With Benzinga Radio
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 7:54pm | 2526After listening to his latest interview with Benzinga Radio, I'm pretty sure MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan knows he won't be getting a Christmas card from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner this December...if ever. I suppose that's a small price to pay for being one of the leading voices in America to...
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Dylan Ratigan: Get Money Out of Politics
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 3:03pm | 1146He may be uncomfortable in a cape and tights, but MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan is quickly becoming a superhero nonetheless. Inspired by the powerful, but unfocused Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, Ratigan is channeling their energy toward the obvious, unstated goal of both movements:...
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Dylan Ratigan Rants Against 'Bought Congress', Naked Empire
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:43am | 1090With a passion that clearly comes from the heart, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan exploded Tuesday (watch the video here), railing against the system of corruption that extracts the wealth from America into the hands of a small cabal of elites while preventing Democrats and Republicans from implementing...
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CNBC's Fast Money Seeing Ratings Decline
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 5:22pm | 357CNBC's post-market show, Fast Money, has seen its ratings decline precipitously on a year over year basis. As ZeroHedge has noted, 2Q 2020 is down 28% in the key 25-54 age demographic compared to 2Q 2009. Comprehensive viewership has declined by 7% yr/yr. Insiders have told Benzinga that the...
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Could Former CNBC’er Be the Cure For Olbermann’s Ratings Plunge?
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 5:22pm | 411That’s the buzz of the industry as Keith Olbermann’s downward trend in the ratings continues based on the 2Q cable news ratings which are out today. According to Business Insider, Olbermann is down double digits for FIVE consecutive quarters in the advertiser friendly lucrative 25-54 demo that are...
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Viewers Tuning Out CNBC
Friday, June 4, 2010 - 10:33am | 297Competition is heating up in the business news segment. The May Nielsen numbers suggest that CNBC's ratings are being squeezed by the likes of Fox Business Network. The substantial stock market sell off in May, which was the worst in nearly 50 years, may also have contributed to lower numbers at...
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Dylan Ratigan Apologizes On Air
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 10:27am | 122Dylan Ratigan, former host of CNBC's popular financial advice series, “Fast Money” and now with MSNBC, has issued an apology for a live confrontation with congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Schultz is a Democrat from Florida who appeared on the show “Morning Meeting” to discuss the health...
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A Four Step Plan To Fix US Banking
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 10:28am | 159To put a stop to corruption and the ongoing banking slump in the US, Dylan Ratigan takes a simple people’s survey and comes up with a solution that will focus more on taxpayers, investors, innovators, workers and do more social good. First and foremost would be to provide transparency and dig up...