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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
Oil Markets Should Trade Without Government Meddling
By Larry Kudlow | 07/09/09
Placing regulatory limits on oil trading is a terrible idea. This is the latest example of the government sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. We ought to allow oil markets to trade unencumbered, without government meddling, or limits, or controls on both large and small investors. This creates the broadest possible base and the largest possible volume. This approach — unsurprisingly — creates an efficient market. Oil... read more »
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Incentives Would Help Businesses Prosper
By Larry Kudlow | 07/08/09
Is the stock market and economy taking a turn for the worse? Do we really need a new stimulus plan from Washington? Let’s begin by rolling back the clock to last Thursday’s June jobs report. It was not a good report. Stocks have fallen over 4% since then. And here's one reason why: plunging wages. Private hours worked continued to free-fall. Hourly wages have flattened. This is a nasty report as you can see. Job losses are... read more »
Jobs Report Defies "Stimulus"
By Larry Kudlow | 07/03/09
After nine months of explosive monetary and fiscal stimulus, you’d think economic recovery would be upon us. But the June jobs report tells a much different story. Non-farm payrolls fell by 467,000 as the unemployment rate edged up to 9.5 percent. This isn’t nearly as bad as the 700,000 monthly job losses of last winter, but it’s still a rough number. Equally disappointing is the household survey -- often a key turning-point... read more »
3 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Madoff Receives Maximum Sentence
By Larry Kudlow | 06/29/09
So Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in the slammer today. He also delivered one of his now-patented non-repentant repentance speeches in the courtroom. Oh, by the way, his wife Ruth also issued a statement, and she threw him under the bus. Yet while everyone can now cheer that the greatest crook in financial history will die in jail, Madoff also may die keeping his secrets with him. So far, prosecutors have come up with very... read more »
3 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Obama's Health-Care Reform Going Down in Defeat?
By Larry Kudlow | 06/22/09
It looks like President Obama’s big-bang health-care reform is going down to defeat. This is good. But my question is why do we need it at all? According to a recent ABC News/USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with their health care. That could mean up to 250 million people are happy. So why is it that we need Obama’s big-bang health-care overhaul in the first place? There’s... read more »
Is Obama Creating a Monster With the Federal Reserve?
By Larry Kudlow | 06/22/09
Does the Obama administration really want to grant a virtual dictatorship to the Federal Reserve on monetary policy and banking oversight and regulation? The Fed already has enough trouble figuring out monetary policy. So this business about the central bank engaging in systemic-risk regulation and all the accompanying regulatory bells and whistles makes no sense. A host of factors contributed to the credit crisis. But it was ultimately the... read more »
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Headaches for Fed Head
By Larry Kudlow | 06/12/09
Did the Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke lie about pressuring the Bank of America not to back out of the Merrill Lynch merger? BofA CEO Ken Lewis made this charge to New York AG Andrew Cuomo, and basically repeated it with a bit of sugar-coating in a House hearing today on Capitol Hill. The central issue was whether Lewis would invoke the materialadverse- change clause (the MAC clause) to back out of the Merrill deal last December, when... read more »
Protecting the Dollar: Drill, Baby, Drill
By Larry Kudlow | 06/10/09
Right now, with oil trading through $71 a barrel, Treasury bonds closing in on 4 percent and commodity indexes up 25 percent year-to-date, inflation fears are circulating through the markets. There’s a way to nip this in the bud: First, the Treasury and Fed should work together to protect the value of the dollar. Here’s how they do it. At the Fed’s June meeting in two weeks, Ben Bernanke should put in the FOMC minutes a clear... read more »
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Is Summers a Sleeper Candidate to Head Fed?
By Larry Kudlow | 06/08/09
The New York Times ran a front-page story today on personal tensions between Larry Summers and other top Obama economic advisors. Parsing through it, it looks like Austan Goolsbee, who argued against the Chrysler bailout, has the cheekiest relationship with Summers. Christina Romer takes a shot at Summers. Geithner does not, though the Treasury man says he’s not afraid to push back against the former Clinton Treasury official and Harvard... read more »
2 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Rollback the Stimulus and Restore Fed's Independence
By Larry Kudlow | 06/04/09
Testifying before the House Budget Committee this week, Ben Bernanke said that when the time comes, the Fed will raise interest rates in order to stop inflation from building in the next recovery. He also asked for “fiscal balance” to sustain financial stability. On the surface -- in terms of keeping prices stable and restoring value to the softening U.S. dollar – this is positive. Surely Mr. Bernanke wants to do right for... read more »
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