Eric Bolling

Eric Bolling: Biography in Details

Who is Eric Bolling?

Eric Bolling is a conservative American TV personality and author. He specializes particularly in financial news and political commentary.

Bolling is the co-host of Fox News Channel’s talk show The Five and the host of the Fox Business Channel news program Cashin’ In.

In 2016, he published his first literary work Wake Up America, a New York Times bestseller, followed by The Swamp: Washington’s Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It in 2017.

Eric Bolling: Early life, Childhood, Education

Eric Thomas Bolling was born on March 2, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois, the US.

His parents are Marie Hildegarde (Catino) and John Gustav Bolling. While much is unknown about his siblings, one of his sisters died due to cancer.

His father is Swedish and his mother is Italian so he is of mixed ethnicity. He is American by nationality.

Except for the fact that he grew up in a poor family in Chicago, there is not much information regarding his childhood life of Bolling.

As per his education, Bolling attended the ‘Queen of All Saints Basilica’ school and later went to Loyola Academy for his high school education.

He then enrolled at Rollins College, graduating in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Eric eventually received a fellowship at the School of Public Policy at Duke University.

The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Bolling in the 22nd round of the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft and assigned him to their affiliate in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League.

However, his baseball career was cut short by a torn rotator cuff injury.

Eric Bolling: Career, Salary, Net worth

Eric Bolling began his career as a commodities trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange, where he specialized in trading natural gas, crude oil, gold, and other commodities.

After serving 5 years on the board of directors at the NYMEX (now CME Group), Bolling went on to become a strategic adviser to the exchange’s board of directors.

Eric Bolling was included in Trader Monthly‘s Top 100 in 2005 and 2006. He received the Maybach Man of the Year Award at the Trader Monthly Awards, on January 17, 2007.

Bolling was involved in developing CNBC’s Fast Money. After leaving CNBC in August 2007, he moved to the Fox Business Network as one of the financial analysts. There, he hosted the business show Happy Hour.

In an on-air incident in June 2011, Bolling mocked President Barack Obama’s decision to meet with Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba in the White House.

Then he went on to also criticize Obama for allowing rapper Common to appear in the White House a few weeks before. Progressive group Media Matters criticized him.

Bolling serves as a host of The Five on the Fox News Channel. He also serves as a guest host on many Fox News shows such as The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Fox & Friends, and The Glenn Beck Show.

Eric Bolling has also penned a few books like ‘Wake up America’, and ‘The Swamp: Washington’s Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It‘.

Bolling gets an annual salary of about $10 million and his net worth is around $20 million as of 2022.

Is Eric Bolling involved in any rumors and controversies?

Eric Bolling has been drawn into controversy now and often. In an on-air incident in June 2011, Bolling mocked the then US President Barack Obama’s decision to meet with Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba in the White House.

He remarked,

“Guess who’s coming to dinner? A dictator.”

Then he went on to also criticize Obama for allowing rapper Common to appear in the White House a few weeks before.

Bolling also was dragged into a sexual harassment case in August 2017.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Talking about Eric’s body measurement, his height is 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 75 kg. His hair color is brown and he has greenish eyes. There is also no information about his shoe size and dress size.

Is Eric Bolling active on social media?

Eric Bolling is very much active on his social media account like Facebook, Twitter as well as Instagram. He has more than 530.7k followers on Facebook, above 1.02 million followers on Twitter and tentatively 40.5k people follow him on Instagram.

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