Last night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke with Fox Business Network’s John Stossel about how GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul “hit the nail on the head” when he warned Barack Obama to be careful when interjecting us in other countries’ business.

Rev. Jesse Jackson has been fairly mum lately in the public sphere, but he emerged today to talk race and politics with Eric Bolling– not exactly an ideological ally– and had an opinion or two on the effect the economy has affected Americans. Specifically, he noted that the housing crisis that began in 2008 with subprime mortgages was targeted at black Americans and “flat-out discrimination.”

Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto had a very busy Jan. 3, even by his own standards. He hosted his regular show, Your World, at 4 p.m. on Fox News. He then ran over to his other studio to host Fox Business Network’s Your Money at 6 p.m.. After a quick break, he jumped back behind the desk at 8 p.m. to anchor FBN’s coverage of the Iowa Caucus results. With returns still unclear into the wee hours of the night, Cavuto didn’t sign off until 2:37 a.m. Which leads to the obvious question: Why is a business network caring so much about primary elections?

TV Newser’s Chris Ariens reported in December that Melissa Francis, who served as co-anchor of Power Lunch and The Call, had left CNBC and planned to join Fox Business at an unknown date in the future. Well, the future is now, as Mediaite has learned that Francis will make her debut on Fox Business Network this Sunday.

Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne got a little too enthusiastic during an appearance on Varney & Company discussing a teen job program proposed by President Obama.

One overlooked effect of Politifact’s naming “Republicans Voted To End Medicare” their “Lie Of The Year” is that it gives the false impression that Paul Ryan‘s original plan to end Medicare as we know it was nothing to worry about, and paves the way for acceptance of the newer Ryan-Wyden Medicare “reform” plan. In an interview with Fox Business’s David Asman, liberal radio and TV host Thom Hartmann slammed Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Politifact for their assault on Medicare.

In a pre-taped interview set to air tonight on Fox Business Network’s “Follow The Money,” Eric Bolling mentioned to Sarah Palin that people constantly tell him they wish she was running for President. Instead of tut-tutting the idea, Palin — who said on Sunday that she wasn’t ready to endorse any Republican candidate yet — swung the door wide open for a possible entry into the GOP field:

Former congressman John LeBoutillier has a few interesting tidbits to share about GOP presidential hopeful and former Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich, it seems.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter‘s Kevin Cassidy, The Muppets director James Bobin responded to Eric Bolling‘s charges that the film is anti-capitalist. “It’s a very strange turn of events to hear a question like that,” Bobin exclaimed. “Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist.”

On Friday’s Follow The Money on Fox Business Network, Eric Bolling and his guest Media Research Center‘s Dan Gainor strongly criticized the environmental themes of the recently released Muppets film. “Let’s point this out,” Bolling exclaimed. “This evil muppet is titled Tex Richman!” “It’s amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message,” lambasted Gainor. ‘I mean this is a Muppet movie for goodness sakes! The only thing green on the screen should be Kermit!’

During an interview with comic Felonious Munk, FBN host Don Imus trashed Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich. ‘That’s a repulsive individual!” Imus exclaimed. “That’s a greasy, repulsive individual, man.”

John McCain joined Fox Business Network’s Don Imus on his Imus in the Morning show Monday morning, and, in a nine-minute segment, the duo hit on everything from Pakistan to a plane crash at Superstition Mountain. But McCain and Imus excelled when talking on topics that had a lighter tone; namely, MSNBC’s hiring of the senator’s daughter, Meghan McCain, and the greed associated with college football re-alignment.

In a fiery on-air altercation, Neil Cavuto ripped into Don Imus for criticizing his viewership on the Fox Business Network. “My ratings are very consistent,” lambasted Cavuto. “Yours are not, because people don’t like you.”

Adam Shapiro entered Occupy Wall Street lore on Tuesday, when an interview he was conducting at Zuccotti Park went viral, as throngs of protesters shouted “Fox News Lies” over his reporting. Shapiro, an Emmy-winning Syracuse University graduate who has been with FBN since 2007, sat down with Mediaite to share his thoughts on the interview, Occupy Wall Street, and the unappreciated beauty of Zuccotti Park.

In late September, FOX Business Network anchor Gerri Willis cut up her Bank of America card in protest over the bank’s proposed five dollar fee for debit card users. After the bank announced that they would not be imposing the fee, Willis had her producers play “Celebration” as glitter was thrown and she did a little dance.

Last night during America’s Nightly Scoreboard on Fox Business Network, Andrew Breitbart appeared to discuss possible union responses to California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed pension overhaul. As is typical these days, the conversation turned to the Occupy protests (“Occupy Wall Street or Occupy LA or whatever the heck they’re occupying,” as host David Asman put it). After Asman asked Breitbart if the unions would use the protests to “create another Greece,” Breitbart replied that, no, they won’t be looking to that nation. He claimed that they were instead getting their inspiration from Hamas.

In this day and age of 24-hour news networks, the blogosphere, and, perhaps most importantly, Twitter, it’s incredibly hard to break a news story anymore. So kudos to Eric Bolling and the folks over at Fox Business Network for getting some extremely exclusive footage of Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Steve King shooting a bunch of birds! Were you not watching when they aired this clip, you would have never gotten to hear King call in and have a four minute discussion of what a good shot Perry is.

Remember the FBN slogan; “If you don’t have Fox Business…demand it!”

If it weren’t so depressing, it would be almost funny how quickly the “objective” cable news channels have fallen into line in their coverage of the Wall Street protests. On MSNBC, the protesters are heroes. On Fox News, they’re raving psychopaths. And, while we seem to already have thousands of examples of the networks in lock step formation, here’s another one courtesy of Fox Business Network! You know, just for fun!

“Nothing and no one today has me more fired up than Bank of America,” said Fox Business Network anchor Gerri Willis this afternoon, following yesterday’s announcement that starting early next year, Bank of America will charge debit card users a $5 monthly fee. Willis reports that new caps on the fees banks can charge merchants for processing debit cards have left banks scrambling to make ends meet. But what’s she, a Bank of America costumer, got to do with that? “Well guess what? That’s not my problem,” she says.

Speaking with Fox Business Network ahead of tonight’s speech, Senior Obama Advisor, Valerie Jarrett, told Peter Barnes that the President will “close loopholes” in his much anticipated jobs bill. “We need to make sure that people that are paying their fair share; that those who can most afford to pay a little bit more do,” she said, adding that, “This should not be controversial.”

What’s it like to be one of the country’s most hated men? It probably doesn’t feel that great. So, it’s unsurprising that Bernie Madoff is apparently using the media to rehab his reputation. Unfortunately for him, he’s not getting any help from Fox Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino who, in a new profile, doesn’t depict Madoff as the victim he seems to want to be. Instead he depicts him as, well, a guy who’s using the media to rehab his reputation.

News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch wants you to know his Fox Business Network’s not losing money anymore. On an earnings call Wednesday, Murdoch described the four-year old business channel as reaching “cash break even” status–not losing money, but not making money either. At the time of FBN’s 2007 launch, the network projected breaking even within five years, so executives see the milestone as a victory even as CNBC continues to dominate the cable business news niche. “Fox Business has made great strides,” News Corp. president Chase Carey said on the earnings call.

Judge Andrew Napolitano sees something suspicious in the timing of President Obama’s major executive announcements: they seem to happen whenever Congress isn’t in session. On last night’s Freedom Watch, the Judge and Reason.tv editor Nick Gillespie debated the relative constitutionality of President Obama’s proposed No Child Left Behind overhaul and agreed– it’s about as constitutional as our “kinetic activities” in Libya, and also announced when Congress is on vacation.

Deficit Commission Co-Chair, former Republican Senator and always outspoken critic Alan Simpson shared his thoughts on the S&P downgrade during a phone call today on the Fox Business Network. Simpson declared he found it “stunning that people are disgusted” when everyone in Washington knows what’s really going on and scolded everyone who is complaining now by telling them “what did they think was going to happen?”

Lou Dobbs‘ new new show on Fox Business Network recently celebrated its 100th episode, and in celebration, the host took a bit of a victory lap by appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Dobbs and host briefly onded over New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen and their common bond of being television hosts, when Jimmy Fallon asked about some political figures. Dobbs gave GOP front runner Mitt Romney some muted praise for saying the right things, before giving Donald Trump a backhanded compliment.