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Rick Santelli

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 12, 1953

Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Rick Santelli

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

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Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up; we would have been rated BBB.

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A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome.

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We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

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I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

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Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

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I think many agree, being on the plan till 26, good idea; preexisting conditions, they all have a cost. So you have to find a way to pay for it. But it doesn't mean that you're going to keep or change. Listen, cars have tires. You can reinvent the car, but it's still going to have tires. Those aspects are components of healthcare.

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I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

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I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.

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Believe me. When you're talking about trust in government, you're preaching to the choir, whether it's on the financial side, the central banking side: we see areas where the government does good jobs; we see areas where they don't do as good a job.

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I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?

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I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

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There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

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I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

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If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper.

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When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

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I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

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Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.

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Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?

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