- Jack Welch, former head of GE, says "I was right about that strange jobs report."
...the 7.8% unemployment figure released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week is downright implausible. And that's why I made a stink about it. [more . . . ]
-- Rick Santelli at CNBC gets into a shouting match with Steve Liesman. Santelli's the man:
Rick Santelli, the man widely regarded as the founding father of the Tea Party movement, got into an incredibly intense shouting match Tuesday morning with CNBC reporter Steve Liesman over recent comments regarding possible election-year manipulation of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report.