all of the markdowns "being forced upon every other" entity including the government, banks, shareholders, bond holders, taxpayers and homeowners. 2011 speech On the August 10, 2011, broadcast of The Dylan Ratigan Show, in a round table discussion of a sharp stock market drop following the Budget Control Act of 2011, Ratigan made a two-minute-long speech against what he perceived to be the state of politics in the United States government, saying: The video of his impassioned speech went viral TV Newser wrote that it was "a powerful, emotional editorial on the economy and Washington". Post-television career Since leaving MSNBC, Ratigan has become involved with hydroponic farming. He is the founder of Helical Holdings. In 2013, he made appearances on The Daily Show and Charlie Rose to discuss his hydroponic farming project employing military veterans. In 2018, Ratigan unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik in . Ratigan said that he has never voted in an election, claiming a "disgust" with "two choices that are available to" him. Ratigan lost the Democratic primary election, to Tedra Cobb, but won a write-in campaign for the Women's Equality Party nomination in the same district by getting two votes (two other write-in candidates got one vote each). The chair of the Women's Equality Party, Susan Zimet, announced efforts to stop Ratigan from running on the party's ballot line to prevent the party from being a spoiler. Following the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ratigan established the US Medical Glove Company, of which he became CEO. The company, which is based at a former Caterpillar factory in Montgomery, Illinois, has a stated aim of helping to reduce US dependence on imports of medical gloves from East Asia, whilst providing high-paying manufacturing jobs. Since January 2022, Ratigan has co-hosted a weekly podcast with Tom Sosnoff titled “Truth or Skepticism” focusing on finance and macroeconomics. References External links Dylan Ratigan biography on MSNBC Dylan Ratigan's articles in the Huffington Post Daily Beast profile of Dylan Ratigan From CNBC Business Journalist to Critic of Bankers on MSNBC from The New York Times 1972 births Living people American broadcast news analysts American television journalists MSNBC people American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American people of Irish descent American people of Italian descent People from Saranac Lake, New York Union College (New York) alumni American sports journalists CNBC people The Young Turks people American male journalists