Terrific pressing TV journalism by Dylan Ratigan who refused to take glib short evasions for an answer:
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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June 18th, 2009 at 7:44 am
GO DYLAN!!! Wow, someone who actually paid attention in class and asked real questions, didn’t accept softball answers, and continued to drill down…
I find the reaction to the host chic for Morning Joe…she seems annoyed/embarassed by his line of questioning! Journalists (for lack of a better name) have become too polite and afraid to ask real questions. She clearly is paid to look pretty and ask softball questions.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Ratigen is the one needs some schooling! Spluttering, stuttering, stumbling, disorganized, opinionated questions requiring 500-700 to deliver leaving no time to respond given the time limited structure of the television “news” medium is hardly comendable. Looks little more than grandstanding pedantism by an unprepared novice blowing a smokescreen.
Newspapers use the “fog index” to simplify the ideas. Try it sometime. This is truly a disgrace and a bore.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:26 am
DR is on to something with the lobbying $$$$.
Follow the money find the fraud.
His delivery needs a lot more focus.
He still thinks he is on ‘Fast Money’.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:56 am
That was great. Too bad MSNBC doesn’t have a huge audience. But I guess he wouldn’t be allowed to ask those questions on FOX or CNN.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Brzezinski’s daughter thinks he asked “some really good questions.” How decent of her to give him that.
Morning Joe won’t be booking any more White House big wigs while Dylan is on deck. “Hey, we’re just supposed to sit here, cross our legs, and sip some coffee. Chill out, dude.”
June 20th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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