Eric Bolling, a news anchor and an analyst by profession, came to life on March 2nd 1963, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Eric is a Catholic by religion and a Native American. Eric was born to his mother who died later on because of cancer. He had 2 siblings, both sisters, one of whom died from cancer and the other is a politician by profession. Eric is known for his good sense of humor and sharp analytical skills. Eric did his schooling from ‘Queen of All Saints Basilica’ and later on joined his high school at ‘Loyola Academy’. He was a bright and intelligent student in his childhood and graduated from ‘Rollins College’ in 1984 with economics as majors. Eric also won a fellowship in Duke University because of his intelligence. Eric started getting inclined towards baseball while he was at his graduation and joined his college baseball team. However he had an accident later on and because of his injury he could not pursue his career in baseball any further. Eric married his present wife Adrienne and the couple has a son together named ‘Eric Chase’.


Eric started his career as a commodity trader on ‘New York Mercantile Exchange’. He soon became a star trader there because of his sharp acumen and analytical abilities. He immediately rose to the position amongst the Board of Directors of the exchange and was rewarded with the ‘Man of the Year’ award there in 2007. However after staying as the director for 5 years, Eric later on moved to CNBC and got associated with their program named ‘Fast Money’. Eric however left CNBC soon in 2007 to join Fox Business Network and has stayed back with them since then. He started his stint with Fox network with a show named ‘Happy Hour’ where he appeared as the financial advisor and analyst. Later on he hosted the show named ‘Fast Five’ on Fox News which was a debate based show wherein guests would appear and debate over political and financial topics. The show went on to become a major hit and Eric got much appreciation because of the show. Eric has also remained in news because of the controversial statement he has made in the past on TV. Once he passed some controversial statement on Obama and later had to apologize because of the reactions. He also made another statement on a Muslim national and later had to issue a public apology regarding the same. Eric recently did a story as well as an Article titled ‘Wake Up, America: Advice for conservatives about Hillary Clinton email scandal’ and the story was much appreciated by the readers and the viewers.

Eric Bolling has remained on TV for a long time now and is known to be a successful as well as much acknowledged guy on media. Eric has an annual salary of around $10 million from the TV shows he does and has an estimated net worth of around $ 15 million which is anticipated to go up in the years to come as he is still not retired.

Last Modified: Apr 7, 2020


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