Congrats to Dylan Ratigan for the recognition of his outstanding work as an aggressive, take-no-prisoners news anchor.
First Amendment Awards
Damn, that’s pretty good company!
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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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August 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Truthtellers, ALL! Well done.
August 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Careful Barry, with the current urge to cleanse the rebellious blogosphere, you could be “outed” by the mainstream press, just like ZH and Yves Smith and the American people will see you are really… BARRY RITHOLTZ.
(Who did you think I was going to say, DON LUSKIN?)
Congratulations to all guardians of truth and sanity in this Orwellian age.
August 25th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Great list. Keep it up!
August 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Excellent work. I´m glad to see that Dylan has set his ties to stun instead of kill.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Barry,
Congrats again and congrats to Dylan Ratigan.
I just finished Bailout Nation a couple of days ago. As a piece of research and as a sustained argument, it’s simply fantastic. If you were a PhD student, you would have the makings of a dissertation. Seriously. (I’m an academic and I should know.)
One question about something you suggest in the book and which you’ve mentioned in other places as well — do you still think the bailouts were just about Citi, or do I misunderstand your argument there?
I mean, what about Lehman and Merrill — clearly they had problems, as did AIG. Also, does that mean you think that all the big banks, besides Citi, are OK at this point? I don’t fully buy into the “It was all about Citi” argument, but these days you have to be prepared to believe just about anything.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I still think it’s amazing you wrote BN with a goose quill.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
@cvienne: LOL! Post of the day.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Dylan Ratigan had his Jesus moment on Fast Money- basically said- fuck this whole charade- the bank bailouts and zero people held responsible for sending the whole economy over the cliff – the TBTF banks, rating agencies and governmental agencies who dropped the ball in their oversight role-
good for him
August 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Oh, please. Ratigan was as docile and inept like his brethren in CNBC.
One interview I saw, someone was intrviewing Ron Paul and Ratigan confessed that Ratigan didn’t know/understand what Paul was talking about. Pure ignoramous and no knowledge of any basic economics.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Something tells me Goldman Sachs isn’t going to get their award for “Best Investment Bank”.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
but- you could see -that as the financial crisis wore on- he was becoming openly derisive about the bailouts – and the fact that the “supposedly” smartest people in the room dropped the ball-
doesn’t take a genius to understand that
August 25th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
You must remember Dylan was always about the truth, his former employer CNBC clearly was not…there was the conflict, there was the rub!!!
To many high profile advertisers on CNBC could not that tolerate the truth Dylan told.
Google: Agnotology…..Dylan is not a participant in that charade
August 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
madman,
I saw that interview, too — wasn’t it on Morning Joe? and I was pretty unimpressed with Ratigan, but considering what he’s doing now, I’ll give him a pass on that. Ron Paul has economic theory coming out of his ears — I imagine that Dylan has little exposure to Austrian economics. That’s OK. He still “gets it” on the bailouts and he’s got a whole show with which to bitch about it. I’m glad for that.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I raise my glass and offer a toast – Don’t Let The Bastards Win.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Gratz to all, it’s only a shame ZH and Denninger can’t both win..
August 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Congrats to Ratigan and Barry the bear.
How come Martenson posted this mornings video before you BR, you’re afraid you sounded a little too conservative?
August 25th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Yes – careful indeed – you wouldn’t want the jackboots to come and cart you away.
Clearly someone has been spending too much time over at ZH
August 25th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
“Damn, that’s pretty good company!”
Yeah, for the others…
August 25th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Nope!
Ratigan does not belong in that group. He’s a yahoo.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Congrats Barry.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
What this small group really says is that the masses do not want to hear about it. They are content in their comfort zone and even those thrown out of work, who have lost their businesses, and their homes
will not get a clue about why this has happened. All they want is what the TBTF’ers want: Bailed out
The MSM audience, the vast majority, will choose to remain stupid, ignorant and/or unenlightened, intentionally.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Bravo! to all on the list. Ratigan is doing a terrific job and Bailout Nation was a blast to read. Keep kickin’ butt and takin’ names.
August 25th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Every time I see the cover of Bailout Nation I think Animal Farm – coincidence?
August 25th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
15. March 28, 2009 5:20 pm Link
Cheers! to Dylan Ratigan who discovered that the truth sets you free. Dylan made the fatal TV faux pas of getting off the entertainment circus wagon when he decided to take a stand on the greatest robbery in World History…funneling another couple of hundred billion to AIG counterparties to make them whole from a bad bookies bet, and using taxpayer future indebtedness..
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/dylan-ratigan-of-cnbcs-fast-money-leaves-network/#comment-227627
I wrote that comment in NY Times DealBook online that day after his “hasta la vista!” and I feel great today with him, and for backing the right horse. I knew he’d be back; he’s the best we have. The greatest programming in your face move right now is putting him up at 9:00AM against the overdone “LIVE!!!!” Mark Haines at his old shop. No contest. Who cares about the Open anyhow..it’s juiced or not in the overnight and stays there. You go guy!
August 25th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
@ SFClaws
Completely OT, but thank you for mentioning the deleted post! I thought I was seeing things last night. Anyway, I spent 2 hours researching polywell fusion. How did we miss this until now? And thanks to whoever originally posted it (but I can’t tell because BR deleted the whole thing).
August 25th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Congratulations Barry! I visited with Richard Lang last week and we talked about you:-)
August 25th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Kudos to ZH, but how about a category for bloggers actually standing up on their own against SLAPP lawsuits that are a the most direct manifest threat to free speech? No? Too risque, eh?
Isn’t anyone wondering why you NEED to post anonymously these days to really say what you want? Preferably through an offshore server? Doesn’t anyone want to do anything about that? Am I totally out of my gourd that it is a problem that you CANNOT run a blog in the United States and/or use your own name if you really want to speak freely?
August 25th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Mark Faber maybe, but not Dylan. We
Isn’t anyone wondering why you NEED to post anonymously these days to really say what you want? Preferably through an offshore server?
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The govt has bigger fish to fry than some random bloggers & commenters. I would not lose sleep over it.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:54 am
The British in NY and Brooklyn called our Forefathers derisive names, Nixon wanted Mark Felt to “stand up”, the Vietcong stood up for their county in black pajamas. Maybe you don’t think outside of your gourd?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Note — In response to several email questioners, I previously mentioned the award Bailout Nation won a few weeks ago
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/bailout-nation-wins-first-amendment-award-for-outstanding-journalism/
August 26th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Thanks for the info, Barry, on your previous post. So my comment was nixed? I’m a little unclear as to the parameters for discussion.
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BR: No idea. We’ve been getting hit with a ton of Splogs and Spam, so alot of stuff seems to be getting filtered and/or lost.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am
What is this crap of winning an award for Ratigan? He is like all the other bubble visionists on CNBC- pumping stocks on Fast Money- why Ritholtz likes him is beyond me
August 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Kudos and congratulations for a continually well done job.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Rick Santilli deserves the Hysterical Commodity award.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Thanks for your take, CTX. Since BR is beyond you, please don’t let the swinging door bang you on your rear….. if you are quick about it you won’t have sucked all the air out of the room.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Dont tell me, TONYYCE that you are the Barry Melrose to Ritholtz? you know, melrose, the howard stern ass kisser
August 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Congratulations Barry, and thank you for your blog!
August 26th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Strike two, CTX. You didn’t get that I am complimenting Dylan Ratigan who has shown rare skill in asking pointed questions where almost all the rest lob softballs and don’t bother to whack them back. There’s still time. ..maybe you ought turn off your Stern. I saw that once enough. Why don’t you show your host some gratitude on his cares rather than soil the furniture and malign his grateful guests. Did you get socially promoted from kindergarten? Just wondering about you and your horse.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Ritholtz isnt G.D almighty- and i think he knows that