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Lawrence Kudlow

Lawrence Kudlow is host of CNBC's The Kudlow Report and co-host of The Call. He is also a former Reagan economic advisor and a syndicated columnist. Visit his blog, Kudlow's Money Politics.
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Recent Articles

  • Recall the Stimulus, Let the De-TARPing Begin, and Set the Fed Free - June 5, 2009
    • 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...
  • Little Green Cars - May 30, 2009
    • Get ready, folks: America is about to buy a car company. As of Monday, we the taxpayers will own more than 70 percent of GM. Whether the company will be formally renamed...
  • We Can't Afford a 'Public' Health Plan - May 14, 2009
    • Does anybody really believe that adding 50 million people to the public health-care rolls will not cost the government more money? About $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion...
  • Jack Kemp's Big Ideas - May 5, 2009
    • When I first visited with Jack Kemp in his congressional office in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s, I couldn't help but notice the row of books on his desk. There...
  • Jack Kemp's Big Ideas About Big Growth - RealClearMarkets - May 5, 2009
  • 100-Day Lurch to the Left - April 30, 2009
    • In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan's popularity and policies moved American politics firmly to the right. In only 100 days, Barack Obama's politics and policies have...
  • Will Crony Capitalism Produce Strong Growth? - April 22, 2009
    • How far will the Obama administration move to assert regulatory control over key sectors of the economy? Are we moving away from democratic capitalism, and toward some...
  • TARP the Life Insurers? This Is Nuts - April 14, 2009
    • Is bailout nation about to strike again? Sure looks like it. According to a bunch of front-page news stories, life-insurance companies are about to get TARPed. This is...
  • A New Era of Govt-Controlled Business? - March 31, 2009
    • Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), probably the most knowledgeable man in Congress about the car bailout, and someone who argued months ago in favor of a pre-planned...
  • A Hidden Agenda Behind the 90 Percent Tax? - March 21, 2009
    • Note that the $250,000 cut-off point for the tax is the same line drawn in the sand in Obama's budget for tax hikes on investors and successful earners. The president is...
  • The AIG Outrage - March 18, 2009
    • But as things stand now, there still is no clear roadmap for the dissolution of AIG. There are ideas, but nothing is set in concrete. And as for the $165 million or so...
  • A Shotgun-Marriage Proposal - March 14, 2009
    • Out of the blue, bank stocks mounted an impressive rally this week, jumping nearly 40 percent on the S&P financial list. One after another, big-bank CEOs...
  • Subsidize Bad Behavior? - February 20, 2009
    • All this took place on the air to the cheers of traders. Santelli called for a new tea party in support of capitalism. He's right. Obama's...
  • Is Geithner Ready for Prime Time? - February 11, 2009
    • You can say a lot of things about President George W. Bush's big-government mistakes. But blaming the Bush tax cuts for the credit-crunched downturn is utter nonsense....
  • Jobs Down, Stocks Up? - RealClearPolitics - February 7, 2009
    • How do you explain it when jobs plunge and stocks surge? That’s what happened Friday as the January employment report revealed a disastrous 598,000 drop in payrolls....
  • Jobs Down, Stocks Up? - February 7, 2009
    • Mustard seeds planted a while back are now pointing to economic recovery. The huge energy tax cut is one such mustard seed. The related inflation collapse is another. By...
  • Shelve This Stimulus Plan - January 30, 2009
    • Clinton economic adviser Alice Rivlin made the same point in testimony before the House Budget Committee. Her message: Divide up the package and slow down the...
  • Obama's Wounded Treasury Man - January 27, 2009
    • The surprising number of no votes suggests that both parties will keep Geithner on a short leash. And it was President Obama who ran over to the Treasury Department to...
  • What Did Reagan's Inaugural Say? - January 20, 2009
    • Media commentators regularly compare the current downturn with the Great Depression, which seems like a big stretch. And there's a good chance Reagan was...
  • How Big-Government Is Obama? - January 9, 2009
    • Nobody really believes infrastructure spending will end the recession or create permanent new jobs. However, it's interesting just how much the Obama plan has changed...
  • GOP Must Confront Obama on the Economy - January 3, 2009
    • The Republican leader is drawing a clear line in the sand. Okay, good. But the GOP has got to do more. It must start talking about tax cuts to grow the economy. And it...
  • Time for a Choice -- Not an Echo - December 31, 2008
    • The Republican leader is drawing a clear line in the sand. Okay, good. But the GOP has got to do more. It must start talking about tax cuts to grow the economy. And it...
  • We Need Rich People - December 26, 2008
    • And then in today's meeting Biden talked about the stimulus package with all that new spending. It's going to be an avalanche of government spending.In today's Wall...
  • Shock-and-Awe Easing - December 17, 2008
    • However, the really big news is not the fed funds target. It's this sentence: "The focus of the Committee's policy going forward will be to support the functioning of...
  • Who's Losing the U.S. Car Business? - December 13, 2008
    • If Sen. Corker's plan had prevailed, with UAW support, many believe it would have had 90 votes in the Senate. GM could have gone forward with a clean-as-a-whistle...
  • Where to Draw the Bailout Line? - December 7, 2008
    • It's a tough choice -- especially for Republicans, most of whom want to vote against bailout nation and stop big-government encroachment on our free-market economy....
  • Obama's Pro-Growth Economic Team? - November 25, 2008
    • When asked about tax hikes on Monday, Obama said the debate is between repeal and not-renewal. In other words, repeal the Bush tax cuts in 2009, thereby raising tax...
  • Tarp the TARP - November 19, 2008
    • But all this brings up a whole new problem in American finance: How are we going to transport and deliver trillions of dollars of new government money? It's not an easy...
  • Bush Shows Obama the Way - November 14, 2008
    • In other words, free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. During a gloomy period of financial crisis, recession, big-government...
  • Is Obama Swiping the Tax Cut Issue? - November 4, 2008
    • Well, for almost two years Obama has talked about cutting taxes for 95 percent of the people. McCain has no such record. And even though McCain has launched a strong Joe...
  • Reagan + Friedman + Keynes: We Need All the Help We Can Get. - October 25, 2008
    • I've never forgotten that advice. Mundell was saying: Choose the best policies as put forth by the great economic philosophers without being too rigid. ...
  • The Light at the End of the Crisis - October 11, 2008
    • Behind all this, the credit system is completely frozen. Banks are now loathe to lend even to each other in the overnight markets that are so vital to the...
  • Will McCain Make the Investor Connection? - October 9, 2008
    • The investor class is a huge voting bloc. Shareholders in recent national elections represented nearly two out of every three votes cast. And most surveys...
  • McCain Must Talk Growth and Recovery - October 7, 2008
    • The financial crisis and economic downturn clearly have buried Sen. McCain in recent weeks. Some of McCain's supporters think he can turn the page on the economy Tuesday...
  • Our Bair Necessity - October 1, 2008
    • IndyMac was in fact taken over by the FDIC, becoming the IndyMac Federal Bank, while WaMu was acquired by JPMorgan Chase and Wachovia by Citigroup. So far as I know, not...
  • A Paulson-Cantor Plan Is a Win-Win - RealClearPolitics - September 29, 2008
  • A Slimmer, Cleaner Paulson Plan is a Win-Win - September 27, 2008
    • In the meantime, as the Treasury holds the loans, the government will get monthly cash-flows coming in on the mortgages, or on any other loans that it owns. So it is...
  • Give Paulson a Clean Bill - September 24, 2008
    • This is similar to the RTC story twenty years ago, when Bill Seidman presided over similar asset sales from bankrupt S&Ls and wound up making money for Uncle Sam and his...
  • Never Sell America Short - September 19, 2008
    • All this was necessary. A collapse of AIG would have been unfathomable -- it is simply too interconnected globally. But it turns out this rescue mission only elevated...
  • Paulson's Courageous Action - RealClearMarkets - September 16, 2008