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Nickname:
Econo Babe, Money Honey
Birthname:
Maria Bartiromo
Hometown:
Brooklyn, New York
Assets:
Penny-Pinching is hot, right?
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Vices:
Embroiled in Scandals
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Introduction
Maria Bartiromo is a true New Yorker thru-and-thru. Exactly what that means, we don't know, it just sounds really cool.
Life Story
Maria Bartiromo grew up in the Bay Ridge section of southern Brooklyn, where she was born on September 11, 1967. Her birthday would later become a date that no one would want to celebrate on. As a teenager, she checked coats at her parents' Italian restaurant, at which her father was the chef. They had a 'B' rating for much of 1980, just FYI. Maria graduated from New York University with a BA degree in journalism and a minor in economics.
Before joining CNBC in 1993, Bartiromo was a producer and assignment editor with CNN Business News. Her spend-thrift ways has been said to have affected the New York hooker trade. She was nicknamed the "Money Honey" during the boom years of the stock market in the late 1990s due to her striking looks. She was also nicknamed the "Econo Babe". Since the 90s, the nickname "Money Honey" has spread to refer to attractive female financial news reporters in general. She currently (as of 2007) co-anchors with Dylan Ratigan the "Closing Bell" show on CNBC from 15:00 to 17:00 ET. Her current contract with CNBC expires in 2008, so stay tuned, you economist perverts...
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