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Lawrence Kudlow is host of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company,” which airs nightly from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. 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.
Mr. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist. 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.
Mr. Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm.
For many years Mr. 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, Mr. 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.
Mr. 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.
Mr. 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.
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 25, 2011)
GOP Presidential Candidate Jon Huntsman dismissed Donald Trump and the debate the real estate mogul and reality TV star will be moderating, and told Larry Kudlow he’s the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 23, 2011)
When you think of Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, terms like earnest, serious and important come to mind. So does the term old-fashioned. Ryan comes from an... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 17, 2011)
Color me cranky about this week’s Republican presidential debate in Iowa. The headline stories were about whether Newt Gingrich actually lobbied for... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 16, 2011)
The payroll-tax-cut debate is not really about the payroll tax, which is a very weak-kneed economic stimulant and a lackluster job creator because of its temporary nature.... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 14, 2011)
While Europe still struggles with its debt crisis, things are moving in the right direction in the United States and China, Bob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist at... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 09, 2011)
Say what you will about former Speaker Newt Gingrich. His philosophy, his policy proposals, his track record, his campaign, and all the rest. But the one thing you have to... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 08, 2011)
It’s now just 29 days until voters head to the polls in Iowa. There's a clear new front-runner in the GOP race for president. The latest in national Gallop poll shows former... more
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Larry Kudlow (Dec 01, 2011)
It’s often said that help comes to those who help themselves. But Europe can’t seem to help itself. So on Wednesday, the U.S. Fed came to the rescue. And that rescue... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 25, 2011)
With a great feeling of loss and sadness, I want to join with so many others to mourn the passing of Ted Forstmann, the brilliant financier, entrepreneur, and free-market... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 17, 2011)
It would be a great tragedy if a super tax hike came out of a supercommittee compromise deal. It would do great harm to the economy -- just as much harm as President Obama's... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 12, 2011)
The idea of 99 percent of the population versus 1 percent of the rich, which Occupy Wall Street protestors have made their mantra, is just wrong, GOP presidential candidate... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 11, 2011)
There were three winners in the CNBC debate: Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Gov. Rick Perry was the obvious loser because of his memory lapse.The guy with the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 06, 2011)
Will the Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke soon follow the European Central Bank’s Mario Draghi? In his first action as Jean-Claude Trichet’s replacement, Draghi cut the ECB... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 05, 2011)
Despite some modest improvements in the jobs picture with the release of today’s Labor Department report, I would guard against any irrational overexuberance that problems... more
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Larry Kudlow (Nov 04, 2011)
The Federal Reserve is still in quantitative easing mode despite the fact that it announced Wednesday it would hold off any new actions to aid the economy, Republican... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 30, 2011)
Friday, October 28, 2011
One-on-One with Charles Dallara
Fresh back from Brussels, former assistant US Treasury Secretary Charles Dallara. He is the managing... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 29, 2011)
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, who unveiled his 20 percent flat tax Tuesday, said his economic plan will “lower taxes across the board” and pull back every regulation... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 28, 2011)
The world economy has once again dodged Armageddon. The European Union finally forged a Greek bond deal, and a rescue fund big enough to ring-fence banks and sovereign... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 22, 2011)
The latest Gallup poll pegs President Obama’s approval at a new low of 41 percent. That adds to the thought that the winner of the GOP presidential-primary sweepstakes is... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 15, 2011)
Herman Cain is the only GOP presidential candidate who wants to kill the tax code. That's right. Put a knife in it. Junk the entire system. And people are cheering as he... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 09, 2011)
LARRY KUDLOW, host:
We welcome back to THE KUDLOW REPORT an old friend, the great famed CEO Jack
Welch.
Mr. Welch, thank you for coming back, sir.
Mr. JACK WELCH: Larry,... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 08, 2011)
Team Obama is out and about mourning a “double-dip recession,” while Fed head Ben Bernanke is warning of a faltering economy. I have described the current economic... more
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Larry Kudlow (Oct 04, 2011)
The stronger-than-expected ISM manufacturing-index reading for September might normally suggest that the economy, at least for now, has dodged a recession bullet. After zero... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 30, 2011)
So just when everyone had concluded the Chris Christie matter -- saying “Great speech at the Reagan Library, but he’s not gonna run for president” -- the New York Post comes... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 23, 2011)
Stocks collapsed roughly 700 points over two days after the Federal Reserve launched its “Operation Twist.” The market correctly perceives that the central bank’s plan to... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 20, 2011)
It could almost make your head spin. With an economy on the front end of another recession, President Obama’s tax attack on the folks who are most likely to succeed, invest,... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 17, 2011)
New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, in a radio interview on Friday, warned that high unemployment could lead to widespread rioting. That’s right. He actually said that. At a... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 10, 2011)
Who would have really expected a 300-point stock market plunge on the day after President Obama’s so-called jobs speech?
Yes, worries over new fears of a Greek default... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 08, 2011)
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney joined me in Las Vegas yesterday to discuss his new jobs and economic plan. He also shared some thoughts on his new Republican... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 03, 2011)
No sooner had President Barack Obama shocked the political world with a gloomy economic forecast -- projecting 9.1 percent unemployment for this year and a... more
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Larry Kudlow (Sep 01, 2011)
I had the pleasure of speaking with Pimco's Bill Gross, one of America’s most famed investors, on CNBC’s Kudlow Report. Mr. Gross has generated big buzz over his admission... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 30, 2011)
Get ready for a bunch of demand-side economists to tell you that the post-Hurricane Irene rebuilding phase is actually a good thing for future economic growth. But don’t... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 21, 2011)
LARRY KUDLOW, host: So now I am personally honored to be joined for an exclusive interview by the former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, that being... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 20, 2011)
Richard Fisher, Dallas Fed president, explains his dissent on two more years of a zero interest rate target. He believes the Fed has created enough liquidity, but it's tax... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 19, 2011)
Amidst the financial flight-wave to safety, with stocks plunging, gold soaring, and Treasury bond rates collapsing -- and all the European banking fears which go with that --... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 17, 2011)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry scorched the political pot Tuesday with a red-hot rhetorical attack on Fed-head Ben Bernanke. When asked about the Fed's reopening the monetary... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 11, 2011)
Ben Bernanke’s shocking FOMC announcement on Tuesday -- that its zero-interest-rate target would be extended for two more years through the middle of 2013 -- drove Dow stocks... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 10, 2011)
Damn the torpedoes! Up periscope! Full speed ahead! Ben Bernanke and the Fed to the rescue!
In a startling move Tuesday, the FOMC announced that its zero-interest-rate... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 09, 2011)
During a period like this, with stocks plunging almost on a daily basis, it’s clear that fear and shock are ruling the roost. But fear can be overdone. As someone who has... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 06, 2011)
There he goes again. Out on the campaign trail, President Obama is proposing more federal spending as his answer to sluggish growth and jobs. That won’t do it, Mr.... more
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Larry Kudlow (Aug 04, 2011)
Stocks and bond yields are sinking as Wall Street disses the debt deal and instead focuses on a likely double-dip recession.
Everyone is gloomy. But is this pessimism... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 29, 2011)
LARRY KUDLOW, host:On July 14th, Standard & Poor's placed the US on credit watch negative on therising risk of a policy stalemate. That clock continues to tick, August... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 28, 2011)
Standard & Poor’s government-credit-ratings guru David Beers played his cards close to the vest on the topic of a U.S. downgrade in our CNBC interview this week. However,... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 27, 2011)
The big sticking points between the House GOP leadership and Sen. Harry Reid’s latest plan are 1) the House wants two debt increases, one this year and one next year (Reid... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 21, 2011)
There are a lot of known unknowns about the new "Gang of Six" budget proposal. But conservatives should hold back from trashing it. Why? There's a large, pro-growth... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 18, 2011)
As uncertain and unruly and disheveled as the debt-ceiling debate may be, there are still good grounds to reach a deal. It could help the economy. It could keep the policy... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 13, 2011)
There are a lot of pieces to the debt-ceiling deal. There are the taxes upon taxes, as the Wall Street Journal editors describe it. That’s the roughly $1 trillion in new... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jul 07, 2011)
Here’s some friendly fiscal advice: Any time some Washington big shot like Ben Bernanke or Tim Geithner claims that immediate spending cuts in the debt deal will harm the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jun 29, 2011)
Here's a question: Why is repealing the Bush tax cuts such a constant obsession for the Democratic Party? Especially the top rates for the most successful earners and small... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jun 24, 2011)
The decision to release two million barrels per day of emergency oil reserves -- with the U.S. covering half from its strategic petroleum reserve -- is surely aimed at the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jun 11, 2011)
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty turned out a blockbuster economic-growth plan this past week, including deep cuts in taxes, spending, and regulations. It’s really the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jun 04, 2011)
Political advantage can be fleeting. A couple of months ago, during the winter quarter, job gains looked to be picking up, unemployment was easing lower, and President... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jun 02, 2011)
With a flamboyant downgrade of the outlook for economic growth, jobs, and profits, Wednesday’s 280 point Dow plunge to launch the so-called June stock swoon is a warning shot... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 28, 2011)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor turned the policy temperature down on austerity this week by rolling out a strong economic-growth agenda. Headlined by a 25 percent top... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 27, 2011)
I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig. He’s a straight-shooting, hard-money, free market central banker—an unusual... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 21, 2011)
Yesterday I spoke with the terribly smart, tough, fiscal conservative Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) about why he walked out of the "Gang of Six" bipartisan budget talks.
In short,... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 20, 2011)
As the IMF gets ready to choose a successor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned following his arrest on charges that he sexually assaulted and raped a hotel housekeeper,... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 19, 2011)
This debt ceiling deal is going to be a tough slog.
But I want to quote House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who told me on "The Call" this week... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 17, 2011)
Earlier today, I had the pleasure of interviewing former Speaker and now House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi. We’ve had several interviews down through the years. And... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 12, 2011)
There’s a lot of turmoil in commodity and stock markets. Last week they both got slammed. On Monday and Tuesday they rallied back. And today they got slammed again.
The... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 09, 2011)
House Republican Speaker John Boehner will give an important policy speech on the debt ceiling tonight at the Economics Club of New York. This is probably the key paragraph... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 07, 2011)
Are we headed for more political business as usual, where Republicans give up too much and get too little back in the debt-ceiling fight?
Today’s papers are loaded with... more
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Larry Kudlow (May 05, 2011)
In the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden, I found myself agreeing with Charles Krauthammer that this was a global game-changer for American greatness.
It was a... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 29, 2011)
Stagflation officially returned today with a nasty GDP report that showed only 1.8 percent real growth, but 3.8 percent for the consumer spending deflator. It’s a mini... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 28, 2011)
Fed head Ben Bernanke, at his first-ever news conference on Wednesday, slammed the door shut on any new QE3 pump-priming.
The $600 billion QE2 program to purchase bonds... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 27, 2011)
When oil prices blew sky high in 2008, ExxonMobil paid $36.5 billion in income taxes, $34.5 billion in sales taxes, and $45 billion in other taxes, for a total of $116.2... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 22, 2011)
As I’ve written many times before, profits are the mother's milk of stocks, and for that matter, business and the entire economy.
And what we witnessed this week in the big... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 21, 2011)
Treasury man Tim Geithner was optimistic today about getting a deal on the budget deficit and raising the debt ceiling. In particular, he was confident that in the next few... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 20, 2011)
There’s a lot of talk right now about U.S. credit downgrades and whether we can possibly get a Washington budget deal that actually controls spending and borrowing.
Stocks... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 14, 2011)
We thought tax reform meant lowering rates and broadening the base by eliminating or cutting back on various deductions, credits, and loopholes. That’s what the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 12, 2011)
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Republicans should not “play chicken with the economy.” The administration wants a prompt vote to raise the federal debt... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 08, 2011)
Washington shutdown fears are sinking the U.S. dollar, according to some news reports. Surely there’s something to this, as investor confusion rises and confidence falls, and... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 06, 2011)
Of all the discussion about Paul Ryan’s big-bang budget plan, the element I like best was caught in this Wall Street Journal op-ed title: “The GOP Path to Prosperity.” ... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 05, 2011)
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with James Grant, the founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. He called the bubble in the 2000s. Right now he’s worried about a... more
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Larry Kudlow (Apr 02, 2011)
Did the big March jobs report put President Obama back on the road to reelection? If so, he can thank the GOP, whose tax cuts saved him from himself.
You could hear... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 31, 2011)
If you buy into the energy speech President Obama delivered on Wednesday, it sure sounds like we’re headed for drill, drill, drill. It would be a total reversal of... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 30, 2011)
Last week I had the honor and privilege of participating in the Reagan Centennial celebration here in New York City. It was truly a wonderful event put together by the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 28, 2011)
Last week, the Commerce Department revised real GDP up to 3.1 percent for the fourth quarter of last year. That was some cause for joy in the stock market. But today we saw... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 24, 2011)
Economic growth over the past ten years has been less than 2 percent annually. And this is a mighty soft economic recovery going on right now, following the very deep... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 23, 2011)
Caveat emptor: The first-quarter economy is slowing and inflation is rising. A month ago, economists were optimistic about the potential for 4 percent growth. Now they are... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 18, 2011)
Better news from the Japan crisis today, as the nuclear power company Tepco appears to be on track to complete a power line to the Fukushima nuclear power plant this... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 11, 2011)
Stocks got slammed today. The Dow dropped 228 points as the much anticipated correction appears to be taking hold. Year-to-date, the broadest index, the S&P 500, is still up... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 10, 2011)
LARRY KUDLOW, host:
Now there's a story raging on cnbc.com right now that is telling the truth
about government handouts, Social Security, Medicare, unemployment... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 06, 2011)
Big economic-growth stats are trumping oil prices and the Mideast tinderbox. In optimistic trading on Thursday, stocks soared nearly 200 Dow points. Oil barely fell to just... more
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Larry Kudlow (Mar 04, 2011)
According to news reports, Team Obama and House Republicans are at least $50 billion apart in the budget negotiations for FY2011. I’m willing to bet that Team Obama and... more
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Larry Kudlow (Feb 18, 2011)
The Democratic/government-union days of rage in Madison, Wis., are a disgrace. Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan calls it Cairo coming to Madison. But the protesters in Egypt... more
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Larry Kudlow (Feb 12, 2011)
A week after Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration, comparisons between presidents Obama and Reagan continue.
The conversation began when Obama praised Reagan in... more
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Larry Kudlow (Feb 10, 2011)
The January employment report was a complete snow job. Abominable winter blizzards across the country caused 886,000 workers to report "not at work due to bad weather,"... more
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Larry Kudlow (Feb 01, 2011)
Decades of autocratic government and a lack of free elections are, of course, the main drivers of the political upheaval in Egypt. But did the sinking dollar and... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 28, 2011)
Governor Chris Christie, welcome to The KUDLOW REPORT. We're honored, sir.
Governor CHRIS CHRISTIE: Happy to be here, Larry. Thanks.
KUDLOW: All right. I really... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 26, 2011)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie expressed disappointment in President Obama’s failure to commit to aggressive budget cuts and entitlement reform in last night’s State of the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 25, 2011)
In his State of the Union message tonight, President Obama is likely to call for some kind of corporate tax reform. But don’t look for him to be a budget-cutter.
As we... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 24, 2011)
Can GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt talk President Obama into a major corporate tax cut? Immelt has been appointed to the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which replaces the... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 19, 2011)
Is there a new Cold War developing between China and the United States? That’s a question hovering over President Hu Jintao and his entourage as they come to Washington to... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 17, 2011)
U.S. economic recovery continues to look better, according to the stock market and a boatload of economic stats last week. Stocks jumped 133 points on the Dow, which hit a... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 08, 2011)
President Obama marks another milestone in his post-election move to the center by appointing pro-business Democrat William E. Daley to the powerful post of White House chief... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 06, 2011)
“Stop the bad stuff” is what John Boehner told a bunch of us at breakfast a few weeks before the election. That’s how he defined the GOP mission. Now he’s Speaker.
And... more
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Larry Kudlow (Jan 04, 2011)
The past is not always a prologue to the future. But looking at some of the big winners and losers of 2010 does provide some strong hints of a positive 2011.
The... more