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" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "
Rick Santelli
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" I'm very happy at CNBC. It's the passion, it's the movement - there's a lot of moving parts. And spontaneous TV and spontaneous debates... I don't know that there's anyone that enjoys their job more than I do. "
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" I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. "
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" Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair. "
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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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" What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips. "
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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'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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" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
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" I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen. "
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" While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House. "
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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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World
" The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! "
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Hold
President
" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "
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" I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home on my train; I cut my own grass... I don't have anything against people that are more elite, but it's just not who I am or what I'm about. "
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" We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. "
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" This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and it's their right. "
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" Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that. "
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" When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis. "
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Analysis
Tools
Tool
" 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. "
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Oil
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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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Sun
" 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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" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "
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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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" This country is a republic. "
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Country
Republic
" Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking. "
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" People in charge of intelligence are political as well. "
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" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "
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Cube
" I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs. "
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" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "
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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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