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'''Lawrence (Larry) Kudlow''' (born ], ]), is an ] ], ] ] commentator. He oppposes estate taxes, as well as taxes on dividends and capital gains. Kudlow advocates that employees be compelled to make greater contributions to their pension and medical costs, suggesting that these expenses are an undue burden on corporations. Kudlow defends high executive compensation and opposes most forms of government regulation. He believes that reducing taxes will increase revenue. In general, he supports a smaller government that does less and citizens who take more individual responsibility. He advocates wide ownership of stocks and frequently speaks of a broad "investor class" that includes most Americans. Kudlow has been a harsh critic of corporate corruption at Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing and other companies. '''Lawrence (Larry) Kudlow''' (born ], ]), is an ] ], ] ] commentator. He oppposes estate taxes, as well as taxes on dividends and capital gains. Kudlow advocates that employees be compelled to make greater contributions to their pension and medical costs, suggesting that these expenses are an undue burden on corporations. Kudlow defends high executive compensation and stock options fraud, and opposes most forms of government regulation. He believes that reducing taxes will increase revenue. In general, he supports a smaller government that does less and citizens who take more individual responsibility. He advocates wide ownership of stocks and frequently speaks of a broad "investor class" that includes most Americans. Kudlow has been a harsh after-the-fact critic of corporate corruption at Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing and other companies.


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Larry Kudlow

Lawrence (Larry) Kudlow (born August 19, 1947), is an American conservative, supply-side economic commentator. He oppposes estate taxes, as well as taxes on dividends and capital gains. Kudlow advocates that employees be compelled to make greater contributions to their pension and medical costs, suggesting that these expenses are an undue burden on corporations. Kudlow defends high executive compensation and stock options fraud, and opposes most forms of government regulation. He believes that reducing taxes will increase revenue. In general, he supports a smaller government that does less and citizens who take more individual responsibility. He advocates wide ownership of stocks and frequently speaks of a broad "investor class" that includes most Americans. Kudlow has been a harsh after-the-fact critic of corporate corruption at Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing and other companies.

Kudlow currently hosts the TV program Kudlow & Company on CNBC. Kudlow is also the economics editor for National Review (a political magazine) and its online complement, the National Review Online. He is also the chief executive officer of his own consulting firm, Kudlow and Company. A syndicated columnist, his articles appear in numerous U.S. newspapers and web sites. He also runs his own blog, Kudlow's Money Politic$.

Kudlow grew up in a Jewish family in New Jersey, although he converted to Catholicism as an adult. He has had problems with drug addiction, including alcohol and cocaine.

1960s

Kudlow attended the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended Dwight-Englewood from the second half of middle school to high school. At that school his class had a time at the beginning of the school day reserved for Roman Catholic prayers.

Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, (graduated 1969) and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton in central New Jersey, where he studied politics and economics but left before earning his degree.

1970s

Kudlow began his career as a Staff Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, one of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks in the U.S. He worked in a division of that bank that handled open market operations, which involve buying and selling bonds to help control inflation.

1980s

During the first term of the Reagan administration (1981-1985), Kudlow served as Associate Director for Economics and Planning in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which belongs to the Executive Office of the President. While he worked at the OMB, Kudlow was also the Washington, DC, reporter of CNN's news program Business Morning, and an Advisory Committee member of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, usually known as Freddie Mac.

In 1986, Kudlow married his third wife Judith Pond, who was born in Montana. Judith moved with Larry to the New York City area, where she studied realist painting at the Art Students League of New York and started working as a painter.

1990s

Later, he became chief economist and senior managing director of Bear, Stearns & Company (until his resignation in March 1995). He also served as an economic counsel to A.B. Laffer & Associates, which is the San Diego, California, company of Arthur Laffer, a major supply-side economist who is said to have drawn the Laffer curve, explaining the principle that low taxation can stimulate the economy, on cocktail napkins during the Gerald Ford presidency in the late 1970s.

He was a member of the board of directors of Empower America, a supply-side economics organization founded in 1993 and merged in 2004 with the Citizens for a Sound Economy to form FreedomWorks.

Kudlow is also consulting chief economist for American Skandia Life Assurance, Inc., in Connecticut, which is the American division of Swedish insurance company Skandia.

He has also contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Cato Journal of the Cato Institute and the City Journal of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, as well as the television shows The McLaughlin Group, and has appeared as a guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and on Wall Street Week.

Kudlow belongs to the Union League Club, the Princeton Club, the Capitol Hill Club and the National Women’s Republican Club, and co-founded the Club for Growth.

Kudlow has been a Roman Catholic since his conversion in the mid-1990s. Back then, he came out of a twelve-step program at the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minnesota.

Kudlow's book American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity (ISBN 0828111170) was published by HarperCollins on December 1, 1997.

2000s

Kudlow became Economics Editor at National Review Online (NRO) in May 2001.

In August 2001, Kudlow was paid about 50,000 USD to give a public speech to Enron employees, drawing criticism from various writers such as senior Salon.com writer Eric Boehlert .

On June 26, 2002, in a commentary by Kudlow in NRO titled "Taking Back the Market — By Force", Kudlow called for the US to attack Iraq, predicting that "the shock therapy of decisive war will elevate the stock market by a couple-thousand points." His belief was that the campaign in Afghanistan had not produced the kind of American resolve and confidence necessary for an economic rebound.

In a February 12, 2003, letter, Kudlow included himself on a list of economic experts saying they endorsed George W. Bush's policies on economic growth and jobs .

In October of 2004, Kudlow registered on Google's Blogger service under the username "Money Politic$", with the profile number 4960020 . The official blog name that was registered is "Kudlow's Money Politic$" and it can be accessed at the or via redirect through .

He co-hosted Kudlow & Cramer on CNBC with James Cramer until 2005-01-28, and then solo for two weeks until 2005-02-11. The program's name was changed to Kudlow & Company on Monday, 2005-02-14.

In April 2005, New York governor George Pataki included Kudlow in a six-members state tax commission.

Kudlow is a regular guest on Squawk Box. He has contributed to CNBC.com on MSN. He also serves on WABC-AM's The John Batchelor Show as a co-host on Tuesdays and as a substitute.

Kudlow was named a "Dorothy Donnelley Moller Distinguished Scholar" at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University.

Kudlow lives with Judy in Redding in Fairfield County in southwestern Connecticut.

His hobbies include tennis and golf.

Kudlow had a hip replacement surgery in mid July 2005, and while he was recovering he continued writing on his blog.

Kudlow is currently CEO of his own consulting firm, Kudlow & Company.

Kudlow joined the Catholic Advisory Board of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds in 2005.

In March 2006, Kudlow started to host a radio talk show on politics and economics on WABC (AM).

Bibliography by Kudlow

  1. American Abundance: The New Economic & Moral Prosperity, 1997-12-01, HarperCollins, ISBN 0828111170
  2. Bullish On Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger, 2004-10, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 1568332610, authored by Stephen Moore and with comments by Kudlow
  3. Tide: Why Tax Cuts Are the Key to Prosperity and Freedom, 2005-09-30, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060723459 (audio CD)

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