Rick Santelli

Rick Santelli

Rick John Santelli is an editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Santelli drew attention for his remarks made on February 19, 2009, about the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan. He suggested that individuals who knowingly obtained high-risk mortgages were ‘losers’

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Summary Rick SantelliRick John Santelli is an editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Santelli drew attention for his remarks made on February 19, 2009, about the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan, which was announced on February 18. He suggested that individuals who knowingly obtained high-risk mortgages were ‘losers’ Santelli has been criticized by the left; for example, George Monbiot said: ‘It is the most alarming example of cheap demagoguery you are likely to have seen’ He has apologized for making the “dumbest, most ignorant, ignorant remarks” about managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

He has also been criticized for his shouting match with CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin on December 4, 2020, over the current government recommendations to curtail the current pandemic and curtail legal restrictions on individuals in order to curtail its spread.