Who do you listen to on CNBC?

[_______]

My wife refers to it as the "blah blah" channel and 90% of the time that's all it is. I have it on in the background while doing other things. But I do stop and listen when I hear these voices:

Art Cashin, Bob Pisani, Mohamed El-Arian, and Bill Griffeth.

Cashin and Pisani are insiders who have done what they do for years and are good at explaining their point of view on the markets. El-Arian is a frequent guest with deep knowledge of a part of the market I still struggle to understand (fixed income). Griffeth gets in just because I've been listening to him since FNN days and he sounds like a calm elder statesman compared to the gesticulating screaming clowns that fil most of the other hours.

If you watch Bloomberg of FBN instead, who do you like there?

[Robert Goren]

I generally watch Squawk Box in the morning. I have to put with a lot of chatter on it just to hear what some really smart people have to say. Buffet is on quite a bit. Bill Gross is worth a listen when he is on. So is Paul McCulley. I like it a lot more when the guest CEOs talk about their marketing plans rather than their company's stock price.

[badcompany]

Your wife is spot on, Don.

There's rarely anything of value, with the exception of contrarian indicators. The media is usually very bullish/bearish at intermediate highs/lows.

A good recent example is the "March to Parity" we kept hearing about when the eur/usd was at ~105. It's at 110 now with zero talk of parity.