Dagen McDowell

A new weekly series is headed to Fox Business Network today, opening up the lines to everyday Joe’s like me to call in and discuss personal finance and economics.

The show, Your Questions, Your Money Live,  will air every Saturday from 10am to 2pm Eastern Time, hosted by Dagen McDowell who appears regularly on Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cashin’ In (she actually won the Cashin’ In challenge for the last three years).

The crux of the show is to bring in Fox Business contributors and outside experts to answer viewer questions regarding finance,  markets, real estate and investing.

I’ve been watching the Fox Business Channel more frequently these days, and the Happy Hour show got me hooked.  The channel is not nearly as dry as Bloomberg, more level than most on CNBC, and seems like it’s geared more toward the common investor than the Wall Street suit.

I look forward to the airing of today’s first show, and I suspect it will be a good complimentary fit to the rest of the lineup at the Fox Business Network.

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The new Fox Business channel debuted a couple weeks ago, and at first I blew it off as another talking-heads show that did little for the common Joe’s Wall Street appetite.

However, the channel is starting to grow on me. Maybe it’s because it’s new, or maybe it’s because it’s just different.

I particularly like the Fox Business Happy Hour. It’s got a couple young hosts (Cody Willard and Rebecca Gomez) that a guy my age could identify with. They’re out in the open instead of being stuck behind a desk, and the show is set at what appears to be a local bar. Willard also hosts CodyWillard.com in which he writes about life, pop culture, trading, investing, technology, rock, media, getting my heart broken… sounds interesting.

I’ve never really taken to Neil Cavuto, that’s not to say I dislike him, I just never could identify with the guy.

In short, the Fox Business channel seems like a refined cross between Bloomberg and CNBC, both of which have their strong points, but when it comes time to sit down, relax, and enjoy some market discussion, Fox Business seems to fit the bill… at least during Happy Hour.

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