FAUX Business show consults Astrologer on rate cut prediction

[edbermac]

Fox Business continues to push the boundaries of what constitutes business news. Last week it was genital cosmetic surgery; this week it's astrology.

On Tuesday's edition of the morning show Money for Breakfast, co-host Peter Barnes interviewed astrologer Constance Stellas about the upcoming Federal Reserve Board meeting. Displaying charts she had drawn up for the meeting and for Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, she predicted a half-point rate cut.

Alas, the cosmos must've been having an off day. The actual rate cut was 0.25 percent.

Or maybe Stellas was simply outside her area of expertise? According to her website, she reads the stars to determine "what colors, sounds, tastes, and feng shui are best for you." She's also the author of The Everything Sex Signs Book: Astrology Between the Sheets, which "combines astrology and psychology to uncover a potential lover's preferred seduction style, fantasies and turn-ons."

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2007/12/13/fox-biz-seeks-answers-in-the-occult

I hear next week they'll be using a Ouija board expert. :rofl:

[screembloodymurder]

1. They don't want to lose their audience.

They've got the dartboard analyst coming up next.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. And these are the guys that own the Wall Street Journal.

What's next? Using Nostradamus to pick Commodity Futures? Edgar Cayce's Mutual Fund premonitions?

[Greyskye]

3. Perhaps cow-pie bingo?

That might help with the rural demographic in some places. :eyes:

[AlCzervik]

4. Faux business channel arrived on my cable system, last week maybe or this week

it is hilarious.

i'll stick with the business scetion of my newspaper.

[tanyev]

5. Thank God they're not using any scientists.

You can't trust anything those crazy scientists say.




:sarcasm: