Eric Bolling

Eric Bolling ( born March 2, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American television presenter and commentator.

Life and work

After attending Rollins College in Winter Park Bolling studied at Duke University. Then he began to work on the New York futures exchange Wait a broker-dealer. He specialized in the trading of natural gas, crude oil and gold.

In the late 1990s Bolling was hired by the Board of the stock exchange as a strategist. In the early 2000s he was involved in the development of the program Fast Money for the business news channel CNBC. 2007 Bolling moved to competing with CNBC Fox Business Network, one to the Murdoch empire belonging Business News in Education, for which he has since acting as financial and market analyst in different shipments. Nearly two years he hosted the show for Fox Business also Fox Business Happy Hour.

Since 2011, Bolling is one of the Stammorderatoren the show, The Five, a political talk show in which a five-member panel discussed the political events of the day, the Monday to Friday at 17.00 clock East Coast Time in the program of Fox News, the mother station of the Fox Business Networks, broadcast will. Also since 2011, he also hosts the show Follow the Money. In the past, Bolling has also repeatedly presented as a guest presenter shows like Fox and Friends, The Glen Beck Program and The O'Reilly Factor as a representative of the regular presenters.

Politically represents Bolling, like most presenters of Fox News, decidedly "conservative" positions within the U.S. political spectrum and accordingly tends strongly to the Republican Party. In particular, economic issues he champions views that apply in the European usage as extremely economically liberal: he opposes regulation of large corporations and the stock market as well as against government social programs and calls for tax cuts and free markets. The Obama administration has Bolling - who describes himself as a convinced capitalist - repeatedly in the past as "socialist " and anti-business and reviled her accused was striving a redistribution of social wealth zuungusten of the service providers. In the areas of security and social policy Bolling is also decided in the Republican camp: A recurring theme in his public statements is alleged by him " liberal " conditioning of the U.S. population, and especially the youth through the largely of "liberals" dominated media. Larger attention was given to his assertion that the film The Muppets 2011 of anti-capitalist propaganda wear in the children's room ( " subjecting the Liberals our kids brainwashed them against capitalism apply ").