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Lots of Americans own stocks or small businesses, but even more Americans pay taxes. And in that simple fact, Fox Business Network sees an opportunity for accomplishing the goal it was created for: overtaking CNBC as the No. 1 business network. Launched in October 2007, FBN struggled early on to...

The brass at General Electric Co. (GE) is telling the on-air talent at CNBC too cool the anti-Obama rhetoric, at least that's the story coming from the New York Post's Page Six. GE Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker held the three-hour meeting at NBC's 30 Rockefeller...

There seem to be a few folks with too much time on their hands and a huge amount of frustration over losing the election last November. And tomorrow they're going to have a little tea party -- a nationwide protest in 500 cities and towns is scheduled for Wednesday -- to let everyone know just how...

CNBC's Rick Santelli and screamin' Jim Cramer are the AIG and Citi Group of TV pundits du jour. Their famous playground fight with American sweetheart, Daily Show's Jon Stewart, ended with Stewart eviscerating Cramer, as captured by Daily Finance writer Jonathan Berr who live-blogged the...

Jon Stewart's battle with CNBC began the night Rick Santelli, who had just called for "another tea party" to protest President Obama's proposed homeowner assistance program, backed out of an appearance on the Daily Show. Can Stewart inspire his own uprising? Hoping to build a movement out of...

CNBC reporter Rick Santelli may have been brave enough to talk about a revolt against the Obama administration's proposal to help homeowners, but apparently he's afraid to face Jon Stewart. Santelli, whose reports from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are as close to street theater as the General...

Rick Santelli made headlines a few weeks ago when he criticized President Obama's new housing plan live on CNBC. Millions of people saw him call for a "tea party" to protest the plan's supposed bailout of "losers" in danger of defaulting on their mortgages. In the wake of his impassioned rant,...

CNBC commentator Rick Santelli's rant against President Obama's economic stimulus package quickly became an internet sensation. When Lita Epstein posted the footage on DailyFinance, it received more than 450 comments. The video also caught the attention of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs,...

Over the past few months, the financial news has often read like an episode of Dallas, with a huge cast of characters fighting for the role of J.R. Engraged by stories about the Fulds and Thains, Mozilos and Corbets, the general public has struck back against the super-rich with rage and invective....

CNBC's Rick Santelli incited the traders on the Chicago trading floor on Feb. 19, calling for a referendum to see if we want to "subsidize losers' mortgages" or buy cars and houses in foreclosure and "give them to people who might actually prosper down the road." As traders cheered, he went on to...