Dylan Ratigan hosts Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan weekday mornings from 9 to 11AM ET and the Dylan Ratigan Show Sunday's from 7-9PM ET on WABC Radio.

Ratigan was most recently anchor and co-creator of CNBC's Fast Money, co-anchor of CNBC's Closing Bell, and has also been a regular contributor to MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Prior to joining CNBC, Ratigan served as a Global Managing Editor at Bloomberg News until March 2003. He joined Bloomberg News in 1995 and was a driving force in building the organization, expanding half a dozen new print beats, including IPOs, derivatives and mergers and acquisitions and then helping to expand their television network by creating and hosting their first successful two-hour morning show. Ratigan spent his last two years there off-camera implementing and supervising Bloomberg's network of banking and finance coverage worldwide with more than 100 reporters in more than 50 countries.

Ratigan previously worked as a regular on-air contributor to ABC News and has published articles in newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald and the Chicago Tribune. He began his career at the Portsmouth Herald in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Ratigan holds a Bachelor of Arts in political economics from Union College.

Blog Entries by Dylan Ratigan

Americans Don't Have Jobs, Will Ben Keep His?

81 Comments | Posted December 3, 2009 | 06:47 AM (EST)


You want to do something about jobs? Well, considering a different Fed Chairman might be a good place to start.

Nothing would more clearly display the inability of our leaders to deal with the disastrous state of our economy than easily reconfirming Ben Bernanke for another round at the Fed...

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Veterans: Lip Service, Bankers: Billions & America: Foreclosures - Here's The Fix

175 Comments | Posted November 12, 2009 | 08:30 AM (EST)


One thing about doing a two hour show that heavily covers both the financial crisis and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that you notice on a daily basis the shocking juxtaposition between the lucky Wall Streeters and the unlucky soldiers.

We all know at this point...

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Four-Step Bank Fix

182 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 05:38 PM (EST)


I spoke today on the Morning Meeting about the four steps the government could take to fix the U.S. banking system and stop the ongoing and expanding corruption of our country. These simple solutions come from the litany of people that I speak with who seek to change...
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Why Keep Geithner?

785 Comments | Posted November 2, 2009 | 07:45 AM (EST)


A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system is a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs pay themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they don't have to customers who can't pay back the...

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Goldman Sachs' Black Magic, Here's How They Did It

366 Comments | Posted October 16, 2009 | 03:04 PM (EST)


How did Goldman, Sachs & Co. -- saved a year ago by the US taxpayer -- magically make $3 billion in 3 months a year later?

This as the US dollar collapses, unemployment soars and foreclosures hit a record?

Here is the Goldman, Sachs & Co. revenue break...

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Turn Goldman Anger Into Government Action

210 Comments | Posted October 14, 2009 | 09:11 PM (EST)


In a world where real competition, modern technology and lack of special government standing means most American businesses have no choice but to adapt and innovate -- Wall Streets wimps only apparent skill is rigging the game.

In fact, on Wall Street there have always been only two...

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The Cost of Corporate Communism

532 Comments | Posted October 7, 2009 | 11:53 AM (EST)


Lately I have been using the phrase "Corporate Communism" on my television show. I think it is an especially fitting term when discussing the current landscape in both our banking and health care systems.

As Americans, I believe we reject communism because it historically has allowed a...

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Why Would We Let Them Rig the Game?

652 Comments | Posted September 29, 2009 | 01:27 AM (EST)


Why is health insurance the only business that has an exemption from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act other than Major League Baseball? If the delivery of taxpayer trillions by our politicians to the banks to support their fraudulently paid bonuses hasn't shown you what our current government's values are, check...

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Health Care: Let's Liberate the Masses

432 Comments | Posted September 21, 2009 | 10:58 PM (EST)


I work for the General Electric Company. It is, at least at NBC Universal, a very nice place to work and I am very lucky to work there.

You meet lots of interesting and accomplished people, there are lights and cameras and action.

And GE is a good company,...

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Americans Have Been Taken Hostage

871 Comments | Posted September 13, 2009 | 11:28 PM (EST)


The American people have been taken hostage to a broken system.

It is a system that remains in place to this day.

A system where bank lobbyists have been spending in record numbers to make sure it stays that way.

A system that corrupts the most...

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