Brophy - I wish there were better alternatives. Fox Business is mostly cringeworthy and Google TV doesn't carry Bloomberg (life as a nomad doesn't give me many options other than Google TV). I need something on during the day to stay current.  Back when I idolized him, Cramer was very helpful. He taught me ways of thinking about markets that they don't teach in business school. He also used to be a valuation guru. He rarely mentions valuations now, he just talks about how great his buddy pal in charge at ___company is. He used to have a rule that you should never buy a stock whose PE ratio is more than 2x it's projected  growth. That worked very well for me for many years...until we went to 0% interest rates and the math didn't make sense anymore. He never comes up with anything like that anymore, but it was a good ride while it lasted.  I guess people get old and change.