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Erin Callan Out Of Credit Suisse - Charlie Breaks Another One, CNBC Likely Fuming
From Fox Business News and its latest addition, Charlie Gasparino:
“What we hear is, as you know, she’s one of the central figures in the financial crisis, was at Lehman when it was imploding, left for Credit Suisse… she is now out of the securities business as of December 31st she has resigned. The speculation is wide, and from what we understand, it’s these investigations. She’s one of the central figures in a federal investigation into the collapse of Lehman.”
“She went to Credit Suisse and then she went on a lengthy leave of absence. It was pretty bizarre—she was gone from the scene, until, from what I understand—I checked yesterday—December 31st she’s officially out of there.”
Note: not a single mention of this on CNBC yet. Of course, nobody gives a rat's ass about Lehman's former CFO, or this news in particular. What is interesting, are the dynamics at play now that CNBCOMASTAGANDA (49/51) is stuck without even one investigative reporter in possession of even half a rolodex. Sure, flashing wire headlines are great, but anybody can do that, even fringe bloggers. Absent Rick Santelli (and on occasion David Faber), the network does not have a single person worth unmuting the TV for. And if we want to listen to propaganda ad nauseam we are sure someone will recreate Goebbels constant radio droning on some 24/7 stream relatively soon. And this is precisely what Bloomberg TV and Fox Business are waiting to pounce on.
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CNBC must pay Santelli millions to stay there. It's unfortunate he gets about 3 minutes worth of air time a day, tops.
I was unaware of Callan's investigation, and even that of the Lehman collapse. I thought the government was successful in swiftly sweeping that one under the rug no? Either way, if they're 8 months into the investigation, maybe they'll have it wrapped up in another what? 2 or 3 decades?
I can't listen to Rico "do we want to subsidize the losers' mortgages?" Santelli, either. Combined, cnbs talkers = one-half wit.
My tube stays tuned (and mostly muted) on Bloomberg all day. I just wish they had spent some of that nyc campaign money on better graphics.
I am with you on 1000% on the lack of accountability and justice re: financial fraud (and torture).
It is a sad United State of Affairs.
It is quite obvious that the CNBC absurdity will eventually collapse into a stinking smoking heap of inflated breasts and egos. The only real question is how much damage will it do before it does.
Inflated what?
http://project000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/07/michelle_carusocabrera_bikini.jpg
I am hopeful it does no damage to the inflated breasts.
"Absent Rick Santelli (and on occasion David Faber), the network does not have a single person worth unmuting the TV for."
LOL! You nailed it. I keep CNBS on the tube only because the ticker is on top of the screen (Bloom's is on the bottom). THE only time I un-mute is for Rick.
+1000
I think it went to mute a year ago. Since, I listen to Faber and Santelli. Literally, everything else is simply not relevant.
My grocery store tells me all I need to know about the economy.
Never to be seen on any of Goebbel's network.
http://vimeo.com/9614190
CNBC gets the news from their "White House Liaisons".
No investigative reporting needed.
I think you mean lesions.
Erin Callan rose far, FAR above her abilities--just another example of the bullshit that goes on in the C-suites of large American corporations.
Is it any wonder these companies suck?
What part of those companies was she sucking, and will that come up in the investigations?
her tenure at LEH was covered by Larry McDonald in his (outstanding) book about LEH (a collosal failure of common sense) and the part about her first conference call as CFO is a most interesting read; think of any of the usual cnbc cheerleader types repeating the "buy, buy, buy" mantra and that is what analysts were getting in that conf call. einhorn saw through it as we know...
The CFO of a broker dealer is faced with a broad array of incredibly complicated issues - risk management, mark-to-market, duration mismatch, etc. Much more than the CFO of a manufacturing company.
It's no surprise that Erin Callan (or Sallie Krawcheck for that matter) totally failed as the CFO of their respective organizations and were subsequently removed (i.e. FIRED). The both had zero experience in treasury, risk management, etc. (Callan a banker, Krawcheck a research analyst). Fuld and the Board at Lehman should have been sued for appointing Callan as CFO when she clearly did not have the requisite experience and background.
excellent point Astute, I agree. I've often heard/read that treasury is an almost must have. Dick Fuld is truly an idiot and a phucknut.
Beautifully said. I kind of feel sorry for her, she was way, WAY out of her league. A perfect scape-goat of sorts.
What? People actually still watch CNBC? Seriously, i mean it, people actually still watch their dribble and spin-cycle up the Greek-style 'reporting'?
A must read for an overall understanding of where we are heading:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17736
What this video conference/interview about Housing's Bumpy Road. Minute 2:20, a CNBC anchors props up Steve Liesman report or investigation about what the Fed is doing with MBS, and asks what one of the guests thinks about it.... "I would have to disagree 100%". Steve goes haywire and doesn't shut up, the other 3 CNBC anchors give Steve a hand and keep raving him.
"Watch"....& the url : http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1422595789&play=1
From the video..."Steve Liesman is one of the best reporters out there covering this."
Still cleaning up the coffee that came flying out of my nostrils from that one.
Any idea when live streaming ZH tv will be avail? I figured Robo would pick the anchors,...live "steaming" ZH tv.
Marla doing ZH on Fox....
C'mon, the ZH people are working around the clock already, they don't have the exta hours for makeup and hairdressing ... and how could they afford eye-catching 3D CGI graphics, signifying nothing...
I bought a "Gold Bitches" mug last week. I gues I could spring for a hat,...no thong.
Tyler, can you devote a post to 'Fast Money' someday? It seems like the type of show that most of your commenters would watch since most people here are day traders, and FM is bascally catering to day traders. Your opinion would be interesting.
let me guess....you are one of the FM crew and need ratings.
Just to take the other side of the trade, I will beg Tyler to please never put a FM clip here, unless, of course, Rosie goes back on.
BRING BACK JEFF MACKE.
+1
DH is spot on. Watching FM makes everyone stupider and will probably give people eye cancer for watching it (I threw the cancer part in there for humor).
Personally, I didn't even know Santelli was worth turning the mute off for. What is it for, to listen to the white man bitch about capital gains taxes and he has to pay taxes on the house maid??? I stopped watching business TV around the time Rukeyser passed away and Paul Kangas started scowling all the time.
Well good for you, Teddy! Thanks for sharing.
Quick Becky is still on Buffett's speed dial so CNBC has that going for them.
Management to Becky: "We'd like to see you start really putting out..."
Would that be her husband speaking or other management?
WHY is Mary Shapiro still allowed to take up space at the SEC??
Never has anyone done more damage from sheer incompetence, ignorance and cronyism.
Maybe she is achieving the objective.
Silently Encouraging Corruption
There is some wired connection between Charlie and ZH .... Right about the time zh got a new website... Charlie made those stupid remarks on cnbc... Almost like advt ZH ;) ... But then I like conspiracy theories
I thought this was the last year of Santelli's contract?
Ah well, Charlie is going to have a ton of fun at Fox with the WSJ to back him his resource pool is now twenty times of those clowns at Bubblevision I.
If only FBN would just stream live on the internet so I can watch/listen to it on my phone during the day...
Pop quiz: How many dicks does an incompetent person need to suck in order to rise to a high enough position to be instrumental in a global financial collapse?
I think one should not merely look to Erin Callan for that answer. One might ask the same question of Tim Geithner, Chuck Prince, Angelo Mozilo (to name a mere 3), any number of Senators, Congressmen (Barney Frank....for his role in FNM/FRE) and a couple of Federal Reserve Chairmen.
Barney suck dick? That's pwepostewous.
rofl
+thousands
Lots of c@cks@ckers Lizzy. Too many to list. Good point. Or do they, in fact, give new meaning to the term cock-roach?
Callan a fine example of the Peter Principal. Punsters can take it from here.....
Callan would make a fine CNBC reporter
Has anyone noticed that nearly EVERY finanical blog in the milky way absolutely trashes CNBC on a regular basis?
II wonder if CNBS even cares.
NBC has allowed MSNBS to be a loser in ratings for years. Why would they start worrying now?
Oh my... and to think how much work it was to fill 6 hours a day of live market coverage back when I pioneered much of this; well before CNBC. Almost forty years ago they called my show the 'mouth marathon' but we managed to call most of the key turns in history; amidst a lot of time to fill with no budget and only a couple staffers.
The majority of trading days are tedious; so aside the bias in some cases, it's not easy to fill. I won't comment about the individuals, as I know most of them (a couple got their first jobs from me at the then-independent financial stations long ago). I am appalled though at the persistent soft-pedaling of serious issues by some would-be analysts; and that's why I always (then and now on our website) tried to be truly balance (both sides of the coin) with a bias.
We would never back then tell anyone to 'buy or sell' as (is still the case I believe) laws and regulations prohibit that unless you have a fiduciary relationship. That today is the same as 'at least' a subscriber not a viewer; and that's a big difference. So I apologize for starting this, so many years ago, but we expressed both sides and opinion without purporting to tell anyone else how to trade without knowing anything about their risk tolerance or other facts .
And yes, I wish Bloomberg would belatedly finally go HD.
great website here too; caution very appropriate now... in my always humble opinion..
cheers!
gene inger
www.ingerletter.com
Fast Money and Squawk Box Europe (not the American one) are the only two shows on CNBC worth watching. Don't even get me started on that idiot Dennis Kneale.
Fast Money and Squawk Box Europe (not the American one) are the only two shows on CNBC worth watching. Don't even get me started on that idiot Dennis Kneale.
"the network does not have a single person worth unmuting the TV for."
Ouch Tyler.
Without sound they look like used car salesmen... Cheesy Chrysler K car used car salesmen to be exact...
And well for Bartiromo et al... you don't need to "unmute" to see silicon or saline...
The demise of the bag of idiots that IS CNBC is pure Schadenfreude love to ZH readers...
Best show on CNBS would be Santelli & Liesman. Cancel Cramit and fast money and put these two on for two hours yelling at each other. Ratings would go thru the roof.
I can't believe no one's thrown in a comment about Dennis Kneale..............my dog has more insight on the market.......
Erin Callan is hot!
She's going to come out of this just fine!
g inger you are absolutely right. Its complete proof of the negligence of the SEC and Finra that they allow buy and sell or hold opinions on these illegal shows like fast money, mad money with just a bogus scrolling disclaimer somehow absolving them from security law compliance. The people that run these shows are reckless and irresponsible and the shows should be shut down. One more case of corrupt regulators asleep at the wheel.
Just to play devil's advocate here - I don't really understand the point of this post.
Tyler himself admitted that this story is not important (I'm assuming important = market moving)
So how in the world is Charlie Gas. a person to "unmute" the TV for? So far, he's broken this story, the Tiger Woods story (although Bloomberg technically beat him on that), and some other nonsense BoA story.
Pretty mundane stuff, to say the least.
If this is the work of one of Biz-TV's "best" investigative reporters, then I don't think CNBC is missing out on much.
Except for Santelli, the whole staff of CNBC is simply another part of the media shilling for Obama. If Obama announces Nationl Dog Poop Day, CNBC will have it on live. Harwood is now even stumbling with his explanations of the Obama nonsense. Stevie the doofus can find something in some communist economics principles to justify any spending program.
One of these days it will all come out. GE makes promises to shill for Obama and gets the debt guarantees and bailouts for GE Credit to survive. CIT does not own a network so it goes under.
Cramjob now has two programs to spread the nonsense. Of course he was deep in the bag for Obama. Now he cannot get away fast enough. On today's little rant he mentioned that energy companies are being driven by Obama policies to develop resources in other countries. That's your baby doing that Jimmy. Man up and ask for forgiveness every day.
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