Rick Santelli

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If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.


— Rick Santelli


#benjamin franklin #country #doing #fathers #founding

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.


— Rick Santelli


#end #end of the day #markets #passion

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.


— Rick Santelli


#challenging #gets #leaders

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.


— Rick Santelli


#anyone #around #believe #fires #getting

I try to avoid political ties.


— Rick Santelli


#i #political #ties #try

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.


— Rick Santelli


#day #happy #i #job #pretty

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.


— Rick Santelli


#because #credit #driven #energy #engine

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.


— Rick Santelli


#clients #losers #me #one thing #served

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?


— Rick Santelli


#culture #energy #goes #greatness #hand-in-hand

The government is promoting bad behavior.


— Rick Santelli


#behavior #government #promoting






About Rick Santelli






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In the 1990s Santelli felt that the financial industry was changing in a way "not beneficial to me and my family" and in 1999 accepted a full-time job with CNBC. He began his career in 1979 as a commodity trader and order filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in markets that included gold lumber CDs T-bills foreign currencies and livestock. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Santelli joined Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

He is also credited with being a catalyst in the early formation of the Tea Party movement via a statement he made on February 19 2009. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for futures-related products.