Charlie Gasparino

About

Charles Gasparino is an American journalist, blogger, and occasional radio host. He frequently serves as a panelist on the Fox Business Network program segment The Cost of Freedom and the stocks/business news program Cashin’ In.

Gasparino was born in the Bronx into an Italian American family and graduated with a B.A. from Pace University before earning his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Gasparino reported for Newsweek, where he covered politics, Wall Street, and corporate America. Among other stories, he broke the story on the controversial pay package of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik’s controversial (and eventually withdrawn) nomination to run the US Department of Homeland Security, and the dispute surrounding former New York Attorney General (and eventual Governor) Eliot Spitzer’s crackdown on corporate crime.
Before working at Newsweek, Gasparino was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. During his time at the WSJ he wrote extensively on issues on Wall Street, including pension funds, mutual funds and regulatory issues. He…