when she claims we made money on TARP. Leaving aside the technicalities (such as the truth), she fails for a single moment to consider the risk of the transaction.
Your buddy takes a $5.00 bill from you, tosses it on the path of an oncoming commuter express train and says he'll pay you $1.00 if you retrieve your own five dollar bill. You comply and just make it back barely missing the oncoming express. He gives you $1.00.
Then Erin "Brains" Burnett says, "Wow! you just made 20%!!! What a deal. Much better than you would have in the stock market. Aren't you one shrewd investor! How can you not be happy? Don't you know anything about trading/investing"
Someone should tell the official network of the Tea Baggers that risk adjusted return is not that difficult a concept