Happy Hour Vid: CNBC's Curious Grasp of the Financial Crisis

John Hudson Mar 4, 2010
After Rick Santelli's rant against bailing out homeowners, CNBC was criticized for being overly pro-business. A year later, CNBC seems to have hardly changed. In this clip, an avalanche of CNBC talking heads gang up on Janet Tavakoli, a derivatives and securities expert. What for? She suggested that predatory lending played a role in the financial crisis.

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