COMMENTARY
The first section following suggests that Dylan Ratigan is a fairly responsible serious thoughtful quiet person.

The second section suggests something more exciting. The YouTube clip sums up where Dylan Ratigan is on the prevailing corrupt socio-economic and political system ... a position that I agree with almost completely. It is not a boring piece of TV anchoring!

The third section is a bit from Wikipedia about his early life and journalistic career. I like the fact that he is not over-educated and has been a financial reporter for a long time ... and has some passion about what he sees is going on.
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About Dylan Ratigan

Dylan Ratigan is the host of MSNBC’s “The Dylan Ratigan Show,” an opinion and analysis-fueled daily broadcast program airing weekdays at 4pm on MSNBC. Ratigan also writes regularly for the Huffington Post and produces one of America’s most insightful and provocative podcast’s “Radio Free Dylan” and dylanratigan.com. His upcoming book to be published by Simon & Schuster later this year, is tentatively titled “Greedy Bastards.”

Ratigan’s political commentary is a throw-back to ambitious reformers exemplified by Teddy Roosevelt in the early 1900’s. Central to this mission is a fearless engagement of powerful private and public interests that seek to protect their power and profits by depriving America of its core values of fairness and equal opportunity.

The country, now more than ever, needs passionate debate and smart policy, a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work, and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. It needs heroes to take on the establishment, and fight for the new American ideal. Ratigan is one of this movement’s most powerful mouthpieces.

Previously, Ratigan worked and thrived on the front lines of global finance and trade for nearly 10 years at Bloomberg LP, where he established multiple beats, including their coverage of mergers and acquisitions. He launched and hosted their flagship morning tv broadcast and ultimately consolidated and oversaw Bloomberg News’ worldwide coverage of banking, investment, insurance and hedge funds as their founding Global Managing Editor for Corporate Finance.

In 2003, Ratigan joined CNBC where he created and hosted Fast Money in addition to co-anchoring CNBC’s The Call and Closing Bell. From seven trips to the World Economic Forum, to 5 to Warren Buffett’s annual meeting, to thousand’s of interviews in dozens of countries, Dylan understands the structural economic unfairness rotting America’s core and he’s not afraid to call it for what it is.

Following the 2008 financial crisis, Ratigan resigned his position at CNBC and launched The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC. Disgusted and disturbed by the rampant evidence of fraud, the theft and cover-up in American government, mega banks and mega-corporations, he is on a mission to create fairness for all Americans. Using the mantra “Truth to Power“, he focuses on showing the audience ideas that are working and making sure the government helps provide a level playing field as we need to make the American dream more reachable by more people.

The following YouTube clip sums up where Dylan Ratigan is on the prevailing corrupt socio-economic and political system

Dylan Ratigan (rightfully) loses it on air

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In a conversation with a show panel about the country's debt and credit downgrade, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan passionately calls both the Democratic and Republican economic plans, 'reckless, irresponsible and stupid.'

(From MSNBC, Tuesday August 9th, 2011)

From Wikipedia
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Early life

Ratigan was born in the village of Saranac Lake in upstate New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economics from Union College in Schenectady, where he was a member of the crew team.[3]

Journalism career

Ratigan served as the Global Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg News Service, and before that had covered Mergers and Acquisitions, the U.S. Stock Market and IPOs. At Bloomberg, he co-created and hosted Morning Call for Bloomberg's cable network and the USA Network.[3] He has served as a contributor to ABC News and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and Chicago Tribune.[3] Ratigan was the host of Fast Money (co-created with Susan Krakower[3] and launching on June 21, 2006). Previously, he was the first anchor of CNBC's On the Money. He also anchored the CNBC TV program Bullseye for 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 of Fast Money in 2009, provoked by outrage over the government’s handling of the 2008 financial crisis. Since then, he has dedicated his work to launching platforms that engage and debate the U.S. government on policy, while opening the door for millions to learn more about money’s often poisonous role in democracy. The New York Times reported he was considering all options but quoted him as saying he was dedicated to covering the economy, 'the story that is affecting every American in every setting.'[4]

Morning Meeting launched June 29, 2009.[5] Ratigan also contributes to other NBC News programs. Ratigan described the show's imperative as 'to discuss any and all political issues with no directive other than to provide compelling content.'[6] The show was the second ever on the network to air in HD, as the network launched their programming in that format.[7]

On May 27, 2010, Ratigan appeared as a guest host on the daily internet news and opinion show, The Young Turks. Cenk Uygur, regular host of The Young Turks is a frequent guest on The Dylan Ratigan Show.

On January 9, 2012, he appeared as a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC,[8] discussing the premise of his book, Greedy Bastards, viz. the swindling and robbing of America by 'government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a failing educational system'.[9] He stated that he has gained weight and started smoking due to his frustration.