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Larry Kudlow
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BIOGRAPHY
Lawrence Kudlow anchors CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" (7-8 pm ET) and co-anchors CNBC's "The Call," (11-12 pm ET) with Melissa Francis and Trish Regan. He is also the host of "The Larry Kudlow Show" on WABC Radio on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist and also hosts his own blog. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of "American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity," published by Forbes in January 1998.
He is a Distinguished Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.
Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic research firm.
For many years Kudlow served as chief economist for a number of Wall Street firms. He was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee. During President Reagan's first term, Kudlow was the associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, where he was engaged in the development of the administration's economic and budget policy.
He is a trusted advisor to many of our nation's top decision-makers in Washington and has testified as an expert witness on economic matters before several congressional committees. He has also presented testimony at several Republican Governors Conferences.
Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, working in the areas of domestic open market operations and bank supervision.
Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is an avid tennis player and golfer. He and his wife Judy live in New York City and Redding, Connecticut.
COMMENTARIES
President Takeover Should Learn from Free Trading Asia
By Larry Kudlow | 11/17/09
President Obama took his declining dollar to the Asia-Pacific economic conference, and he added to it a declinist opinion of America’s economy. His big message? Don’t count on American consumers to lead the world from recession to recovery and beyond. His second big message? In the U.S., we must save more and spend less. Huh? This is the same limits-to-growth, central-planning wisdom we hear so often these days at home. It’s... read more »
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Imagine Barney Frank as de Facto Fed Chairman
By Larry Kudlow | 11/15/09
Investors and political analysts should keep a sharp eye on the congressional assault on Federal Reserve independence. This is a transparent effort by members of Congress to use the financial-reregulation bills as a means of applying political leverage to stop the Fed from any 2010 midterm election- year exit strategies that might raise the federal funds target rate, stop the purchases of mortgage-backed bonds, and drain cash from the... read more »
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Fed Policy is a Storm Cloud Over Future Economy
By Larry Kudlow | 11/05/09
Wall Street loves easy money. That’s what I conclude from today’s 200-point stock market rally, which started early and gathered force, pushing the Dow back over 10,000 at the close of trading. Oddly enough, stocks roared at yesterday’s opening by nearly 150 points, a response to the GOP sweep in New Jersey and Virginia. The government’s health-insurance takeover plan looks dead after the elections. Nancy Pelosi is... read more »
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Election Deals Blow to Team Obama's Big-Government Agenda
By Larry Kudlow | 11/04/09
Stocks loved last night’s election returns. President Obama and Nancy Pelosi got their ears pounded back over big spending, taxes, the health-care takeover, cap-and-trade, and well, the fact that government is getting too darned big under this crowd in Washington. The health-care insurance companies roared right up from the open. Investors are making a bet that the government-insurance option is in even bigger trouble after last... read more »
4 Comments | Related Topics »National |
GOP Victories Could TKO Health Care Reform
By Larry Kudlow | 11/03/09
Against the backdrop of high unemployment and a public revolt against a Democratic health-care bill -- which would significantly increase taxes, slash Medicare spending, and massively raise health-care spending elsewhere in a government takeover of our leading growth sector -- a three-race sweep by Republicans is very much in play this Election Day. The Intrade pay-to-play betting/investment parlor shows big wins for Bob McDonnell in Virginia... read more »
2 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Desperately Needed: Kemp-ian Growth Policies
By Larry Kudlow | 10/28/09
It must be something in the water. The ruling Democrats know their tax-hiking, re-regulating, and big-spending policies have failed to rejuvenate job-creation or reduce the unemployment rate. And yet they persist in trying more of the same. A recent New York Times editorial acknowledges that the economy is weak, but it pleads for yet another federal stimulus package. The Times editors want another round of unemployment benefits (this would be... read more »
5 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Why Not Cut Taxes AND Spending?
By Larry Kudlow | 10/26/09
Here’s a question: If unemployment is the problem, then why aren't supply-side tax cuts, along with tougher government budgetary restraint, a possible solution? Top Obama economic advisor Christy Romer delivered a very gloomy forecast late last week to Congress, saying unemployment will remain at a “severely elevated level” and that the U.S. jobs market will stay painfully weak next year. She was just being honest. Romer... read more »
2 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Team Obama is in Economic Trouble on Two Fronts
By Larry Kudlow | 10/07/09
Team Obama is in economic trouble on two fronts right now: The dollar could be headed toward its demise while the jobs and unemployment numbers have gotten worse. (The unemployment rate is up to 9.8 percent as of the September report released last week.) And there’s a simply policy mix the White House could adopt to fix this. It could enact the Mundell-Laffer supply-side approach of a steady King Dollar for price stability and low marginal... read more »
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Housing "Recovery" Built on Same Shaky Policy Foundation
By Larry Kudlow | 09/30/09
The Case-Shiller home price index increased yesterday for the third month in a row. That's terrific news. After a 40-50 percent drop in home prices in recent years, sales are picking up, because prices are way down. That's also great. Markets work. But here's what I don't like about this story: Big, central planning, government-directed tax preferences for housing, like the $8000 dollar tax credit for new buyers. Or even the popular mortgage... read more »
Larry Kudlow Interviews World Bank President Robert Zoellick
By Larry Kudlow | 09/29/09
Last night I had the pleasure of interviewing distinguished World Bank President Robert Zoellick. Mr. Zoellick told me not to take dollar supremacy for granted. He blasted the Federal Reserve for bungling the asset-price bubbles. He believes that Treasury — not the Fed — ought to be our ubersystemicrisk regulator. And he says the U.S. has huge policy choices in front of it. Here’s the transcript from our... read more »
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