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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
Federal Reserve Governor Warns Against Continued Easy-Money Policy
By Larry Kudlow | 09/26/09
Attendees of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh and members of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington should carefully read a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fed governor Kevin Warsh. In a piece titled “The Fed’s Job Is Only Half Over,” the former Wall Street investment banker sends a shot across the global economic bow. He says the Fed’s job will not be done until it removes the easy-money policies put in place over the past... read more »
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GOP Candidates Gearing Up in California
By Larry Kudlow | 09/24/09
There’s a lot of interest in the California midterm elections because of two well-known business ladies, Meg Whitman (former-CEO of eBay) and Carly Fiorina (former-CEO of Hewlett-Packard). Of course, California’s economy and fiscal position are in a death march. All kinds of capitalists and entrepreneurs are running away from the state’s high taxes and overregulations. (Among other palaces, they’re headed to Texas.) But... read more »
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Bernanke Signals End of Recession
By Larry Kudlow | 09/15/09
Fed head Ben Bernanke declared “the recession is very likely over at this point,” adding the phrase “from a technical perspective.” He said this during a question-and-answer session at the Brookings Institution today. Well, gee whiz golly. While Mr. Bernanke’s forecasting prowess is somewhat suspect (we all can say that), he got some strong ammo from a blockbuster retail sales report that was way above Wall... read more »
Wall Street Bets Heavy that Public Option is Dead
By Larry Kudlow | 09/11/09
The day after President Obama’s impassioned speech for big government health care, Wall Street bet heavily that the so-called government-insurance option he supports is dead. In a strong stock market on Thursday -- the market’s fifth-straight daily rise (so much for the September swoon) -- health-insurer shares advanced significantly. Cigna increased 5 percent; Health Net almost 5 percent; Humana 3.5 percent; and UnitedHealth... read more »
2 Comments | Related Topics »National |
China Criticizes Fed's Loose Money Policy
By Larry Kudlow | 09/08/09
A hugely important story from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph that China is alarmed by U.S. money-printing has helped drive the dollar price of gold over $1,000, at least temporarily, and drive down the exchange rate of the greenback. Other commodities like oil and copper have also rallied today. At a conference in Lake Como, Italy, a leading Chinese economic spokesman -- Cheng Siwei -- criticized Ben Bernanke’s loose... read more »
Borrowing from Peter to Redistribute to Paul is Not Fiscal Stimulus
By Larry Kudlow | 09/06/09
The jobless-recovery theme re-emerged on Friday with the arrival of a disappointing employment report. The daunting number was the unemployment rate, which jumped from 9.4 percent in July to 9.7 percent in August. This is a big-versus-small-business issue. Sort of the haves versus the have-nots. The large companies are gradually recovering as a result of major cost-cutting, inventory reduction, and a lean-and-mean return to profitability and... read more »
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Free-Market Economies are Resilient and Self-Correcting
By Larry Kudlow | 09/01/09
Believe it or not, sometimes good news on the economy can be bad news for stocks. It’s a distant point, but one worth considering in view of conservative pessimism over Obama’s plans to spend, tax, borrow, and control the economy. I share these worries. But the U.S. is still a free-market economy, and it will be so at least until the health-care and energy sectors are nationalized. And free-market economies are resilient and... read more »
If Bernanke Repeats Easy-Money Policy, We're in Trouble
By Larry Kudlow | 08/25/09
It’s no surprise that President Obama re-nominated Fed head Ben Bernanke to a second term as chair of the central bank. It was the path of least resistance. Essentially, the president argued that Bernanke was the guy who kept us out of a second Great Depression. Okay, fine. But now we must ask: Is Bernanke the right guy to craft and pilot an exit strategy that avoids new inflationary bubbles? In short, will he be Helicopter Ben or King... read more »
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Robert Novak Dies at 78
By Larry Kudlow | 08/18/09
Now we say good-bye to Robert Novak, who passed away early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. Yet another conservative icon has left us. He was a good friend, and an amazing reporter. In fact, I believe he was the best reporter of his generation, which spans all the way back to the Eisenhower years. Bob had a lot of opinions -- conservative opinions; Reaganesque opinions. But his pursuit of journalistic detail, facts, scoops, and stories that... read more »
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Is Fed Repeating the Same Easy-Money Mistake?
By Larry Kudlow | 08/13/09
The bull market snapped back yesterday and prospects for modest economic recovery still look good. But I want to issue a warning or two about the latest policy statement from Bernanke & Company. I am not thrilled about it. The Federal Reserve is keeping its fed funds target rate down near zero and is talking about adding another $1.5 trillion to its balance sheet through the purchase of mortgage bonds and Treasuries. Now, I don’t care... read more »
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