Rick Santelli, famously in 2009, by one measure launched the “Tea Party” with an epic rant about how big government was crushing capitalism while it was actually in the midst of saving it. Since then he’s been wrong about every economic question worth being asked. One of the CNBCers got tired of his nonsense today and this happened. Watch.
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