Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 8:44AM

santelli: "who cares if they don't let to each another?"

hmm. I think a few people might.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 8:45AM

Can someone please explain why Ivanka Trump is co hosting sqwauk box???WTF does she know about anything except spending daddy's money???

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 8:46AM

@4, female or gay?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 8:47AM

@4- well, actually, she does work for his firm. But she clearly has place on Squawk Box, and in answer to your question, likely because the don's show is on fellow GE-owned network NBC.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 8:51AM

@4 because Cramer is on the Apprentice this week and Joe Kernan was on last week. Is she really any worse than the typical clueless long only fund manager guest host? Definitely much better to look at and CNBC already lost all credibility long ago

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:00AM

Rick has the knowledge and experience to back up his comments... Liesman is a reporter who thinks he's an economist.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:02AM

@8- "Rick has the knowledge and experience to back up his comments."

too bad he didn't take the opportunity to actually do that?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:03AM

@8- does it matter if the banks lend to one another? your boy bitch rick said it didn't. you agree with that? oh, and tell us again about Rick's "knowledge and experience."

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:04AM

Santelli is being "packaged" poorly by CNBC. Santelli's "positive's envelope" has now been stretched too thin and "lash-back" is being observed. For example, see comment @1.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:05AM

@5 Back Office Clerk or Mail Room Boy?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:09AM

@9... I'm not sure I believe the whole "threats to my family excuse" so on one level I agree...On another level, despite Santelli's passionate rants, I don't think he's as much of an attention whore as the other CNBC clowns and I think he realized he had nothing to little to gain by going on Jon Stewart.... I think Jim Cramer's public humiliation might have shown that Santelli made a wise decision...

I think on CNBC there are a lot of TV Personalities (hesitant to call them reporters because it is a dog and pony show) who think b/c they work for a business network they are experts....

Santelli's is one of the few, employed by CNBC, whose opinion I respect. Liesman is a joke.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:10AM

CNBC has Zero Credibility left, parading Ivanka Trump out on a Friday morning and placing her in a seat where she can show off her body...hahahaha what a joke! I am switching to Bloomberg.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:13AM

@13- so, he has no idea what he's talking about, but because he's not an attention whore we should be happy? and when I said he didn't back up his comments I didn't mean on Stewart, I meant this morning to Liesman.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:13AM

CNBC equals Ass Clown City!

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:15AM

@10 Missed the beginning of the rant because I was in a meeting... I'll check out the video if it gets posted online... However, I think a guy that's been around the CME since the 70's and was VP of Interest Rate futures & Options might know a thing or two about banks lending to eachother....

What's your resume? What's Liesmans resume?? Former editor of the WSJ? not impressed...

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:16AM

You zealots are all “Who is John Galt, let GM fail, let Yahoo fail, etc, etc” then, Rick says “Yeah, and the banks too”

Then, it’s all; “Rick’s an idiot, you don’t understand, No, no, we are super-hyper-ultra-special. We are banks!!!!”

Pathetic. Is it any wonder the rest of the world calls us whores?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:24AM

@19- um, it was liesman who said he didn't know anything.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:24AM

@18- if you can't back up the shit that comes out of your mouth, no one gives a fuck what your resume looks like.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:26AM

"Trump attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, as well as Chapin in New York City. After graduation, she spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to and graduated[2][3][4] from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania-- her father's alma mater-- with a bachelor of science in economics in 2004"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanka_Trump

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:30AM

@22 and you are backing up your comments perfectly... Have fun in marketing class today.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:30AM

"Trump is in a relationship with Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer,[10] and is converting to Judaism.[11]"

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:30AM

Liesman is a journalist w/ NO econ background other than what hears hears and what he's told to say. His talent is that he presents himself in a way that the average viewer thinks this guy must know what he's talking about. Kudlow has lost his mind, Cramer is a buffoon, but Liesman is the real bullshitter in that group - he does it with ease.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:32AM

Santelli knows futures exchanges, but doesn't know dick about how to resolve a banking crisis. His infatuation with inflation last fall shows that he doesn't understand how a collapse of the banking system can destroy and economy. And his purist free-market approach tells me he's never bothered to study how banking crises are cleaned up or what the role of the lender of last resort is.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:32AM

http://www.ivankatrumpcollection.com/

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:33AM

what's with all this bashing on my lovely iwanna hump? she's more articulate than more than half of the clowns they put on this show and i think she's well prepared with the issues facing the economy - i'm also hard now...

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:34AM

"Born in Bronxville, N.Y., Mr. Liesman received a bachelor's degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Liesman

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:36AM

Rick vs Trump?

I think we all know who is more credible.

Give that girl a contract.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:36AM

28 Forget Santelli and his "free market approach" please call Geithner, Bernanake, Obama and Co. and let them know you have the answer.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:39AM

"Santelli graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has been a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. He began his career in 1979 as a trader and order filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in markets that included gold, lumber, CD's, T-bills, foreign currencies and livestock. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Santelli joined Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:46AM

"After college, Santelli began trading in 1979 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in various markets, including commodities, CD's, Treasuries, and currencies.[3]

During the time he spent as a financial trader and executive, Santelli would work for Drexel Burnham Lambert as the Vice President of Interest Rate Futures and Options.[3]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:49AM

The trumps are ubiquitous. Don't forget the apprentice is on the network. they are constantly having the CNBC celebrities on the apprentice. Turn about is fair play.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:53AM

LOBSTERWAGON

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:55AM

Liesman is just a cheerleader for the fed. they feed him info and he defends them at every opportunity. Santelli seems to have genuine opinions, dosent mean theyre good though.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:56AM

what a loser, and whats up with the creepy, shit eating, child molesting fake ass smile that he does?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:56AM

#38, you nailed it.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:58AM

ivanka was on to push her product, born on 2d base and thinks she hit a triple. donny d, ivanka t, it's pathetic. hope they're paying cnbc to appear.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:59AM

"Santelli seems to have genuine opinions, dosent mean theyre good though."

end of discussion. we're not here to make friends, I don't give a fuck if you have a genuine opinion, I care if it's actually one with any basis in reality. Rick's "genuine opinion" today did not pass that test.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:01AM

Whatever, Leisman is a not even entertaining to watch. Santelli is one hundred times more valuable to the network that Leiman.

Trump is usually well versed on whatever topic she picks to speak about. And the fact she is fucking nails makes it all the better. And besides, who has the volume on at work?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:04AM

@45- "Whatever, Leisman is a not even entertaining to watch."

We're debating who has a clue and who doesn't, not which is the most "entertaining to watch."

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:26AM

Bottom line, if Ivanka wasn't Donald Trumps daughter she would be no different than every other wanna be secretary on Wall Street and stilol she is no more qualified to discuss economic issues in front of millions of viewers.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:28AM

"If you can't get a girl, get a Choatie."

-Silvia Wadwha

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:30AM

Leisman is an idiot? I found the whole clip very insightful:

Rick: Let's take a look at my teleprompter, there's a 5 and a 6 that was a 4 but adjusted to a 9, but something is going to change that could possibly cause the next number to be different.

Joe: That's really interesting, let's get another expert to tell us something.

Steve: Let me look at my script here, let's see… there's a lot of numbers with commas and decimals that I'm not sure about but I'm sure it's a good reason to be bullish.

Ass-clown: Well the market is a bit unclear from here. It went up one day, but it went down another so my analysis is a bit unclear. I think that if we can rally the market, it will go up.

Joe: I think that at 8 we're probably above 7 but below 9. I think that the market might change in the future, what do you think?

Ass-clown: [Nonsense here….]

(Rick to producer: "Put me back on the screen and I'll say something really smart!")

Rick: I don't talk to experts like Joe here, but the gerbil in my ass told me that we don't need businesses and lending. We just need the market to go up. And yes, the gerbil does talk.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:46AM

You can't handle the truth!!

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:49AM

boycott all obama networks

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 10:50AM

boycott retard comments (example: 52).

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:13AM

So now liesman is picking a fight with Larry Kudlow? If he were female, everyone would be saying "it's that time of the month."

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:16AM

I mute my TV when Santelli talks. He's such a moron.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:20AM

@33 Don't call Rick a girl

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:21AM

Soon to be...Ivanka Trumpstein...or Trumpowitz! Oy vey!

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:27AM

TGFD is with Rick...

"Bring back Glass-Steagall."

BTW, that is point #1 on TGFD's "Eight-Point Financial Resurrection Plan" that TGFD wrote on March 23rd.

The Guy from Delaware

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:29AM

"TGFD is with Rick..."

of course he is.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:31AM

I'm with TGFD:

"Bring back Glass-Steagall."

I'm def not with Rick.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:40AM

We can all tell our grandchildren about capitalism some day...

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:47AM

Squawk Box had Arianna Huffington last month and today Ivanka Trump.

It won't shock me if anytime soon they have Maxine Waters.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 11:54AM

Don't think Rick really wanted to fight with Steve thas AM.

Rick has his own opinions. Right or wrong only history will tell who was right and who was wrong. My bets on Rick.

Leisman is just another Obama admiistration buttboy. Total idiot!

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 12:14PM

@53

not possible, this place would be a ghost town.

....and now for the obligatory "kill yourself".

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 12:24PM

I would like CNBC to bring US Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa and ask him about the people he wants to see dead.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 12:36PM

Even if Rick was a Jesus, he has a mayor flaw. He never shuts up and listens, all he does is wait for his turn to speak.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 12:39PM

Ironic that segment sponsor seems to be from the one country who has a clue about how to run a banking system.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:02PM

if Rick is so smart, why doesn't he get braces for those chicklets masquerading as teeth

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:22PM

Pay your bills libs.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:23PM

@50 BRILLIANT!! my co workers think I'm creepy now because I just started sponateously laughing.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:24PM

*spontaneously

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:25PM

Not sure why everyone even cares about this besides that it's fun to argue. Bloomberg trumps CNBC any day. Either cut off the TV or flip the channel.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:26PM

Ivanka is actually pretty smart and this isn't the first time she's been on the show. They have her on because they all like her, not because Cramer is on the App this week. So she's not John Bogle, so what? She's fresh and has some interesting things to say (did the Trump haters actually watch today?)

Santelli is off-the-cuff but almost always right, is not a smug guy, very down to earth, and his version of populist backlash is pretty spot on most of the time. Perhaps he is not marketed well, but, yes, he does understand Money and Banking 101, his comments about banks lending to each other was obviously meant on a relative basis (he means right now, how important is it when loan demand is drastically shrinking).

Liesman is a arrogant know-it-all journalist who thinks he's an Administration economist, talks down to everyone even though he's never made a penny on the Street, is way over his skis on any subject other than this morning's particular number, and has become decidedly an apologist for Treasury and the Fed lately, hardly un-biased.

That said, these little tiffs are CNBC manufactured, don't kid yourself...

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:29PM

@74 why would we do that when it's way more entertaining to argue until we're blue in the face?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:30PM

@75 = Santelli's gerbel

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:36PM

If Santelli is so freaking smart why does he keep using his made up word in his phrase "Allzz I know ..." Maybe he should be the one to go to the library and look up the word "all". Dumbass.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:50PM

wawa wewa

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 1:54PM

I genuinely enjoy reading everyones comments and how bad they completely miss the point.

Attacking someone's credentials rather than the actual argument itself and making the claim that because Santelli worked on a trading floor that he'd have any idea how the interbank market works. Brilliant.

Santelli is superficial.

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 2:38PM

Bloomberg:Regulators used the market shocks of the second half of 2008, when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. declared bankruptcy, as the model for testing banks with trading portfolios of $100 billion or more.

HaHa!! Santelli said they would use this as a model. There is 0 outside the box / creative thinking by these morons.

Government in charge = Fail

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 3:32PM

@74

is that because the O administration does not influence Bloomberg like they do over at CNBC?

Posted by guest , Apr 24, 2009 9:46PM

Yes I assign tons of credibility to someone the minute they say "Allzz I'm saying iz..." Of course when it's followed by, "Who cares if the banks lend to each other?" well, heck, he's a Rhodes Scholar at that point. I'm going to Fox Business. Smart people who are way hotter.

Posted by guest , May 01, 2009 2:05PM

Luckily For Santelli, O'going to make education cheaper...