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Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley,” network CME floor reporter Rick Santelli offered his thoughts on the day’s dramatic sell-off in U.S. stocks, which is tied to fears about the fall of the Chinese economy. According to Santelli, there’s a disconnect

On Friday’s “Squawk Box” on CNBC, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), one of the more outspoken proponents of the controversial Trade Promotion Authority, told “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernan that he believed the House has the votes for the measure. “We

Texas is once again ranked at the top state in the U.S. to do business. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says it will get even better in the coming years. The ranking was made by Chief Executive’s 2015 Best and Worst States to Do Business report. The magazine surveys top CEOs from 511 companies across the nation. This is the eleventh year in a row that Texas has topped the list.

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is presenting a new explanation of how he acquired those gruesome injuries on New Year’s Day. During an interview with CNBC, Reid says he was hurt in his own bathroom. But that explanation doesn’t hold up.

The exact number of agents working for the IRS is not relevant to either the joke Cruz was making, or the serious and legitimate point underlying it: the same government that pronounces itself utterly helpless to keep track of immigration scofflaws, or secure the border, is very aggressive about keeping tabs on law-abiding taxpayers.

Pundits are debating whether Jeb Bush’s Super PAC will succeed in raising $100 million before he formally announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. But big money is only part of the equation. The better question is whether Bush can convince the conservative base to support him. That seems iffy.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been paid to corporations like Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic, and Apple since 2012 in contracts related to the controversial Common Core standards.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that while “vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we had,” he claims he has heard of children who got mental disorders from vaccines on Monday’s “Closing Bell” on CNBC.

End of sequestration signals explosive new spending splurge in Washington; The Iraq war had nothing to do with the federal deficit; Government receipts plunged when the bubbles burst; The high federal deficit is caused by bubbles bursting, not the Iraq war

SAN DIEGO, California Friday morning at the beachside RNC Winter Meeting in San Diego, California, the Republican National Committee laid out a schedule for a limited nine sanctioned Presidential debates ranging from August 2015 through March 2016. Fox news –

Former House Majority Leader-turned-Wall Street investment bank executive Eric Cantor appeared on Twitter for the first time since July to tweet out his Monday CNBC op-ed wherein he offered Republicans advice on how to lead the new Congress.

Since its debut in 1989, business news network CNBC has been a business news powerhouse on cable. But this year, the news leader had its worst ratings ever.