Nov 05 2007
The Money Honey has balls
As Citigroup Chief Totters, CNBC Reporter Is Having a Great Year, she sure does. “I didn’t think I had to defend what I was doing,” she said over the firing of Todd Thomson .. .. now Prince is gone. And the girl is standing tall: “I love this thing now called sovereign funds,” Bartiromo said, meaning the large pools of capital amassed by governments in Asia and the Middle East, and managed by groups like Cutter Associates, an international investment firm. “I had the head of Cutter on and he said: ‘Look, we have $60 billion we want to put to work.’ I find that kind of stuff so exciting. I find it so sexy.” Pretty neat and yes, very sexy.