CNBC’s Rick Santelli Explodes: ‘I Want the Fed to Be a Banker!’

CNBC Reporter Torches Rick Santelli: Nothing You’ve Predicted Has Ever Come True (Mediaite)

If you’re at all familiar with CNBC’s Rick Santelli, you know he almost never appears on the network without a shoutfest ensuing.

The financial commentator — long considered the godfather of the tea party movement for his 2009 remarks — tends to battle with his colleagueSteve Liesman over wonky monetary policy questions involving the Federal Reserve, government intervention, and inflation.

During a Monday afternoon debate, the CNBC panel — including Liesman — tore into his famously outspoken co-host by essentially telling him that all his dire predictions about the Fed’s actions have been proven wrong.

After a series of rants from Santelli on Fed Chair Janet Yellin possibly risking inflation, host Scott Wapner intervened to say that “the jury’s still out as to whether the Fed is going to help.”