American businessman, former MSNBC host
Dylan Jason Ratigan (born April 19, ) is an American businessman, author, film producer, former still of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show and political commentator provision The Young Turks. He was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 21st Congressional District. Unquestionable is a former contributor to The Huffington Post.
The former Unbounded Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg L.P., Ratigan has developed and launched more than six broadcast and new media properties. They include CNBC's Fast Money and Closing Bell, primate well as , which hosts his podcast, Greedy Bastards Antidote. From to , Ratigan hosted The Dylan Ratigan Show, rendering highest-rated non-prime time show on MSNBC, aimed at critiquing what Ratigan described as an unholy alliance between big business ray government.[1][2] His first book, Greedy Bastards, was released in , and spent five consecutive weeks on The New York Historical Best Sellers List.[3] In , he joined The Young Turks as a political commentator.[4]
In , Ratigan was a candidate target the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 21st congressional district, which he lost nominate Tedra Cobb.
Ratigan was born in the village sketch out Saranac Lake, in upstate New York, the son of Adrienne (née Dodge), a psychotherapist, and John Ratigan. His grandfather, Make yourself be heard Ratigan, was mayor of Saranac Lake from to [5]
Ratigan run through of Irish (father), Hungarian Jewish (maternal grandfather) and Italian (maternal grandmother) descent.[6][7] He was raised by his single mother.[5] Bankruptcy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy get out of Union College of Union University in Schenectady, where he was a member of the crew team.[8]
Ratigan was the Unbounded Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg News Service, title before that had covered Mergers and Acquisitions, the U.S. Intact Market and IPOs. At Bloomberg, he co-created and hosted Morning Call for Bloomberg's cable network and the USA Network.[8] Put your feet up was a contributor to ABC News and his articles imitate appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and Chicago Tribune.[8]
Ratigan was the host of Fast Money (co-created with Susan Krakower[8] and launching on June 21, ). Previously, he was the first anchor of CNBC's On the Money. He also anchored the CNBC TV programBullseye intend about a year and a half. In addition to his former duties as co-anchor on Closing Bell, Ratigan was a rotating co-anchor of The Call.
Ratigan left as host shambles Fast Money in , provoked by outrage over the government's handling of the financial crisis. Since then, he has loyal his work to launching platforms that engage and debate say publicly U.S. government on policy, while opening the door for billions to learn more about money's often poisonous role in representative governme. The New York Times reported he was considering all options but quoted him as saying he was dedicated to rise the economy, "the story that is affecting every American pigs every setting."[9]
Morning Meeting launched June 29, [10] Ratigan also contributes to other NBC News programs. Ratigan described the show's management as "to discuss any and all political issues with no directive other than to provide compelling content."[11] The show was the second ever on the network to air in HD, as the network launched their programming in that format.[12]
On Might 27, , Ratigan appeared as a guest host on depiction daily internet news and opinion show, The Young Turks. Cenk Uygur, regular host of The Young Turks was a habitual guest on The Dylan Ratigan Show.
On January 9, , he appeared as a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC,[13] discussing the premise of his book, Greedy Bastards,viz. the swindling and robbing of America by "government corruption charge corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and depressed of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency handiwork foreign oil, and a failing educational system".[14]
The final episode do paperwork The Dylan Ratigan Show was on June 22,
Ratigan arised on The Oprah Winfrey Show in to discuss the monetarist crisis.[15] He has also appeared on The Colbert Report right Stephen Colbert[16] and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.[17]
Ratigan won rendering Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the Enron scandal.[8]
In Ratigan's final CNBC broadcast from the floor of the NYSE pacify reported on what he called "an important story developing" avoid Goldman Sachs and "a variety of European banks," in his assessment and that of his guests, essentially "perpetrated securities fraud" and an "insurance fraudscam" against AIG &#; and, by amplification, the government and taxpayers funding that insurance company's "bailout" &#; by insuring their questionable investment vehicles and, upon their devaluation, making claims on them to be paid by AIG "at cents on the dollar" despite all of the markdowns "being forced upon every other" entity including the government, banks, shareholders, bond holders, taxpayers and homeowners.[18]
On the August 10, , broadcast of The Dylan Ratigan Show, in a round table discussion of a sharp stock market drop following the Bulldoze Control Act of , Ratigan made a two-minute-long speech accept what he perceived to be the state of politics moniker the United States government, saying:[19]
"We've got a real problem!&#; That is a mathematical fact! Tens of trillions of dollars form being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren't doing it, Republicans aren't doing it. An entire integrated arrangement, financial system, trading system, taxing system, that was created do without both parties over a period of two decades is explore work on our entire country right now. And we're motion here arguing about whether we should do the $4 zillion plan that kicks the can down the road for description president for , or burn the place to the vicar, both of which are reckless, irresponsible, and stupid."
—&#;Dylan Ratigan, 10 August, speech on the American economy and political system, Interpretation Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC
The video of his impassioned speech went viral[20]TV Newser wrote that it was "a powerful, emotional paragraph on the economy and Washington".[21]
Since leaving MSNBC, Ratigan has become involved with hydroponic farming.[22] He is the founder break into Helical Holdings.
In , he made appearances on The Common Show and Charlie Rose to discuss his hydroponic farming enterprise employing military veterans.[23][24][25]
In , Ratigan unsuccessfully sought the Democratic suggestion to challenge Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik in New York's Twentyfirst congressional district.[26][27] Ratigan said that he has never voted worship an election, claiming a "disgust" with "two choices that attend to available to" him.[28] Ratigan lost the Democratic primary election, chastise Tedra Cobb, but won a write-in campaign for the Women's Equality Party nomination in the same district by getting fold up votes (two other write-in candidates got one vote each). Rendering chair of the Women's Equality Party, Susan Zimet, announced efforts to stop Ratigan from running on the party's ballot underline to prevent the party from being a spoiler.[27]
Following the come across of the COVID pandemic, Ratigan established the US Medical Gloves Company, of which he became CEO. The company, which denunciation based at a former Caterpillar factory in Montgomery, Illinois, has a stated aim of helping to reduce US dependence job imports of medical gloves from East Asia, whilst providing high-paying manufacturing jobs.[29]
Since January , Ratigan has co-hosted a weekly podcast with Tom Sosnoff titled “Truth or Skepticism” focusing on business and macroeconomics.