She will also be taking on (soon to be) former colleague Steve Liesman in his own den as a “senior economics correspondent.” CNN said Friday that it has hired CNBC’s Erin Burnett to serve as an anchor and chief business and economics correspondent. Burnett will anchor a weekday general news program, as well as contribute to CNN’s coverage of national and international breaking news, out of the cable network’s New York headquarters. She starts in June.

And other things you may not have known about the guy who will be all over your ass should you so much as look at WB the wrong way (such as his name: Dan Clark). * Clark got the gig protecting Buffett after meeting his daughter buying bagels

As Donald Trump has stated previously, were he to run for President (and he says he doesn’t want to but might have to because “the world laughs at us and they won’t be laughing at us if I’m president”), the first issued he’d tackle is “this business” with China. The Don says he’s uniquely to do so because 1) he “ buys a lot of products from China ” and 2) he knows how to “ knows how to say things ,” unlike our diplomats. Trump has said he’d put a 25 percent tax on China’s products that come into the United States and this morning on the Today show, he laid out the vicious rhetoric he’d use to make sure everyone knew to take him seriously.

The Times has something huge on you know who. In addition to the cumulative stock sales and stock ownership, the filings show an inner circle that is chiefly male — 87 percent of the current partners are men…Most Wall Street firms shed their partnerships after going public.

In addition to my full disclosure a little while ago regarding my investments, I would also note that coverage on this blog of stocks and the market proceeds to a degree that I’m able to digest and reflect upon breaking news and stock research. Much of the time, that depends upon

They’ve survived the recession. One was spotted by a reporter on the Acela last night, who recounted the sighting to a colleague this morning

AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong just confirmed that his company has acquired popular tech blog TechCrunch. He’s currently on-stage in San Francisco with TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference.

Ayeah Games said today it has closed a round of seed funding to develop its “social reality games,” which mixes social networking and breaking news. The Boston-based company was founded this year by Doug Levin, a serial entrepreneur. “Ayeah Games is about real people and real events and capitalizes on the rapid adoption of Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms,” said Levin.

I’m going to throw something out there that probably shouldn’t come as too much of a shock, knowing what we know about Matt Taibbi, the boy who spent months of late nights hunched over at his typewriter, gnawing the skin off his knuckles trying to figure out how those crooks at Goldman Sachs do it, reportedly threw scalding hot coffee in the face of a reporter who’d offered him constructive criticism and, on at least on occasion, kept a thermos of horse semen in his fridge to later be baked into a pie and smashed into an unsuspecting victim’s face . And here’s what: Matt Taibbi is the kind of guy who will install surveillance cameras in your home and office, without your knowledge, if he is under the believe you’re screwing him over.

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