But, for CNBC and Maria Bartiromo, things couldn’t be better.

banks on the brink: these are dark days for Wall Street.

e Harmony says the relationship soured when some married travelers signed up and others created multiple profiles, violating terms and conditions.

Frequent-flier discussion boards went nuts over this promotion.

In other words, Wall Street has its versions of Megan Ellison, Shonda Rhimes, Kathryn Bigelow, Dana Walden and Donna Langley.

But the underlying industry statistics still paint a grim picture for the average female employee.

While “crisis” certainly can come across as an inflammatory, provocative word, the numbers speak for themselves. CNBC aims to accomplish the near-impossible task of making the ever-familiar stock-market ticker look sexy on a daily basis.Firms typically buy frequent-flier miles from airlines at less than one penny per mile, but that can get expensive quickly. When cereal companies put coupons for miles in boxes, store shelves went bare.In 1999, a Healthy Choice frequent-flier promotion led a man in Sacramento, Calif., to buy up huge quantities of pudding and donate it to the Salvation Army in return for help peeling off labels to mail in.It seems as if the roll of CNBC refugees could fill a small banquet hall.The network could occasionally be accused of failing to value some of its personnel.