{{Short description|American television host and financial analyst (born 1947)}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Larry Kudlow | image = Larry Kudlow (25484250682) (cropped).jpg | caption = Kudlow in 2016 | office = 12th Director of the National Economic Council | president = Donald Trump | term_start = April 2, 2018 | term_end = January 20, 2021 | predecessor = Gary Cohn | successor = Brian Deese | birth_name = Lawrence Alan Kudlow | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|8|20}} | birth_place = Englewood, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican (1981–present) | other_party = Democratic (before 1981) | spouse = {{ubl |{{marriage|Nancy Gerstein|1974|1975|end=div}} |{{marriage|Susan Cullman Sicher|1981|end=div}} |{{marriage|Judith Pond|1986}}}} | education = University of Rochester (BA)<br>Princeton University (attended) }} '''Lawrence Alan Kudlow''' (born August 20, 1947) is an American conservative broadcast news analyst, economist, columnist, journalist, political commentator, and radio personality. He is a financial news commentator for Fox Business and served as the director of the National Economic Council during the Trump administration from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a CNBC television financial news host.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gerstein |first=Nancy |date=May 26, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/26/archives/june-16-bridal-set-by-nancy-gerstein.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=June 16 Bridal Set }}</ref><ref name=replace>{{Cite news |author1=Jacob Pramuk |author2=Eamon Javers |title=Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as Trump's top economic advisor |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/trump-to-name-larry-kudlow-as-gary-cohn-replacement.html |access-date=January 7, 2021 |publisher=CNBC |date=March 14, 2018 }}</ref> He is the vice chair of the board of the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank founded to promote an America First public policy agenda.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Honorable Larry Kudlow |url=https://americafirstpolicy.com/team/larrykudlow |access-date=October 24, 2024 |publisher=America First Policy Institute }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Fuchs |first1=Hailey |last2=McGraw |first2=Meridith |date=August 29, 2024 |title=Meet the think tank planning a second Trump administration. (It's not Project 2025.) |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/29/trump-transition-plan-afpi-00176674 |work=Politico}}</ref>
Kudlow began his career as a junior financial analyst at the New York Federal Reserve. He soon left government to work on Wall Street at Paine Webber and Bear Stearns as a financial analyst. In 1981, after previously volunteering and working for left-wing politicians and causes, Kudlow joined the administration of Ronald Reagan as associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget.<ref name="nytref1" />
After leaving the Reagan administration during the second term, Kudlow returned to Wall Street and Bear Stearns, serving as the firm's chief economist from 1987 until 1994. During this time, he also advised the gubernatorial campaign of Christine Todd Whitman on economic issues. In the late 1990s, after a publicized battle with cocaine and alcohol addiction, Kudlow left Wall Street to become an economics and financial commentator{{snd}}first with ''National Review'', and later hosting several shows on CNBC.
==Early life and education== Kudlow was born and raised in New Jersey, the son of Ruth (née Grodnick) and Irving Howard Kudlow.<ref>{{cite book|title=International Who's Who, 1983–84|date=1983|publisher=Europa Publications Limited|isbn=9780905118864|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xJ4R0t9G3oC}}</ref> His family is Jewish. He attended the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, New Jersey, until the sixth grade. He then attended the Dwight-Englewood School through high school.<ref>"The Interview: Lawrence Kudlow", from ''The American Spectator'', March 2001. "I remember that in this little prep school that I went to, the Dwight Englewood School in New Jersey, we had to say the Lord's Prayer in homeroom."</ref>
He graduated from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, with a bachelor's degree in history in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V65N2/feature5.html |title=Rochester Review: The Optimist Reigns Again |publisher=Rochester.edu |access-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref> According to ''The New York Times'', "While he had no extensive formal training in economics, he had an innate understanding of how markets worked and was comfortable with numbers. And he worked hard to teach himself."<ref name="nytref1"/>
In 1971, Kudlow enrolled in the master's program at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, but he left before completing his degree.<ref name="Andrews1995">{{cite magazine |last1=Andrews |first1=Suzanna |title=The Hollow Man |magazine=New York |issue=44 |date=November 6, 1995 |volume=28 |pages=34–40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34}}</ref>
==Career==
===Early career=== Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<ref name="Andrews1995" /> He worked in the division of the Fed that handled open market operations.
In 1970, while he was still a Democrat, Kudlow joined Americans for Democratic Action chair Joseph Duffey's "New Politics" senatorial campaign in Connecticut which also attracted an "A-list crowd of young Democrats", including Yale University law student Bill Clinton, John Podesta, and Michael Medved, another future conservative. Duffey was a leading anti-war politician during the Vietnam war era. Duffey's campaign manager called Kudlow a "brilliant organizer".<ref name="Andrews1995"/> In 1976, he worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, along with Tim Russert, against Conservative Party incumbent James L. Buckley, brother of William F. Buckley Jr.<ref>{{cite book|title=Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life|last=Medved|first=Michael|publisher=Crown Forum|year=2004|isbn=1-4000-5187-8|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/rightturnsunconv00medv/page/131 131]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/rightturnsunconv00medv/page/131}}</ref>
===Reagan administration=== During the first term of the Reagan administration (1981–1985), Kudlow was associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a part of the Executive Office of the President.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Radelat |first1=Ana |title=Trump names Kudlow to top White House economic job |url=https://ctmirror.org/2018/03/14/trump-names-kudlow-top-white-house-economic-job/ |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=CT Mirror |date=14 March 2018}}</ref>
=== Financial services industry === In 1987, Kudlow was hired by Bear Stearns as its chief economist and senior managing director. Kudlow also served as an economic counsel to A. B. Laffer & Associates, the San Diego, California, company owned by Arthur Laffer, a major supply-side economist and promoter of the "Laffer Curve", an economic measure of the relationship between tax levels and government revenue. Kudlow was fired from Bear Stearns in the mid-1990s due to his cocaine addiction.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-kudlow-cocaine-habit-john-kelly-1990s-2018-3?r=US&IR=T |title=The '90s were 'a crazy time': John Kelly suggests Larry Kudlow's past cocaine addiction won't bar him from obtaining security clearance |work=Business Insider |access-date=March 17, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Andrews1995" />
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 was also a founding member of the board of advisors for the Independent Institute and consulting chief economist for American Skandia Life Assurance, Inc., in Connecticut, a subsidiary of insurance company Prudential Financial.
=== Media === Kudlow became economics editor at ''National Review Online'' (NRO) in May 2001.
Kudlow served as one in a rotating set of hosts on the CNBC show ''America Now'', which began airing in November 2001. In May 2002, the show was renamed ''Kudlow & Cramer'', and Kudlow and Jim Cramer became the permanent hosts. In January 2005, Cramer left to host his own show, ''Mad Money'', and the program's name was changed the next month to ''Kudlow & Company''. The program went on hiatus in October 2008, returned in January 2009 as ''The Kudlow Report'', and ended its run on CNBC in March 2014.
Kudlow is also a regular guest on ''Squawk Box''. He has contributed to CNBC.com on MSN. Starting in 2004, he also appeared on ''The John Batchelor Show'' as a co-host on Tuesdays and as a substitute, until he left to become an economics advisor to President Trump. In March 2006, Kudlow started to host a talk radio show on politics and economics on WABC as ''The Larry Kudlow Show'' aired on Saturday mornings from 10{{nbsp}}am to 1{{nbsp}}pm ET and via nationwide syndication in the US starting June 5, 2010.
Kudlow's name was floated by Republicans as a potential Senate candidate in either Connecticut or New York in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420242/larry-kudlow-nrsc-senate-bid-ny-ct|title=Larry Kudlow and NRSC Renew Discussions on Senate Run|last=Johnson|first=Eliana|date=June 24, 2015|work=National Review|access-date=June 25, 2015}}</ref> In October 2015, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, in an email to supporters, attacked Kudlow despite Kudlow not being a candidate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ctmirror.org/2015/11/04/blumenthal-campaign-targets-potential-rival-kudlow-over-actual-candidate-wolf/|title=Blumenthal campaign targets potential rival Kudlow over actual candidate Wolf|website=Ctmirror.org|date=November 4, 2015|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref> In early December 2015, Jack Fowler of ''National Review'' created a 527 organization that encouraged Kudlow to run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://patch.com/connecticut/weston-ct/redding-resident-being-lobbied-run-us-senate-against-blumenthal|title=Redding Resident Being Lobbied to Run for U.S. Senate Against Blumenthal|date=December 6, 2015|website=Patch.com|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>
=== Director of the National Economic Council === [[File:"Our Pledge to America's Workers" (45604416292) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Kudlow with Ivanka Trump in 2018]]
In March 2018, Donald Trump appointed Kudlow to be director of the National Economic Council (NEC), succeeding Gary Cohn.<ref name=replace/> He assumed office on April 2, 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/381317-trump-meets-with-new-top-economic-adviser/ |title=Trump meets with new top economic adviser |last=Jagoda |first=Naomi |date=April 2, 2018 |work=The Hill |access-date=April 4, 2018 }}</ref> Kudlow's role as director of the NEC was to advise the president on economic matters, devise domestic and international economic policy, ensure policy consistency with the president's goals, and oversee implementation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Breuninger |first1=Kevin |title=Here's what the National Economic Council director does — and what that means for Larry Kudlow |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/trump-kudlow-and-the-history-of-the-national-economic-council.html |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=CNBC |date=15 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
During his tenure at the NEC, Kudlow sought to promote the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and advance a de-regulatory agenda. Kudlow believed the tax bill would eventually pay for itself, a stance which put him at odds with the Congressional Budget Office, which projected that the act would increase the deficit.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rizzo |first1=Salvador |title=Analysis {{!}} Larry Kudlow's claim that 'we have virtually paid for' Trump's tax cut |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/14/larry-kudlows-claim-that-we-have-virtually-paid-trumps-tax-cut/ |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=The Washington Post |date=14 March 2019}}</ref> Kudlow evinced optimism about U.S. economic prospects.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tankersley |first1=Jim |title=In Larry Kudlow, Trump Finds His Economic Evangelist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/larry-kudlow-profile-trump.html |access-date=22 October 2025 |publisher=The New York Times |date=March 15, 2018}}</ref> As a proponent of supply-side economics, which emphasizes tax cuts and deregulation to spur economic growth, he was sometimes at odds with Trump's more protectionist stance on trade.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Landler |first1=Mark |title=Larry Kudlow Breaks With Trump, Saying 'Both Sides Will Pay' in Trade War With China |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/politics/larry-kudlow-trump-trade.html |access-date=22 October 2025 |publisher=The New York Times |date=May 12, 2019}}</ref> Kudlow defended the use of tariffs as a negotiating tool against China.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bowden |first1=John |title=Kudlow defends Trump's tariff moves: China is 'breaking a lot of laws' |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/382105-kudlow-defends-trumps-tariff-moves-china-is-breaking-a-lot-of-laws/ |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=TheHill |date=8 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kudlow defends tariffs on China, wants to avoid EU duties |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/29/kudlow-china-tariffs-trade-747494 |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=POLITICO |date=29 July 2018 |language=en}}</ref> He was a member of the White House's coronavirus task force.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Segers |first1=Grace |title=Larry Kudlow says Trump "led wisely" in response to coronavirus - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kudlow-says-trump-led-wisely-in-response-to-coronavirus/ |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=www.cbsnews.com |date=11 September 2020}}</ref>
After the 2018 G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Canada, he criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a candid interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, saying that Trudeau had "stabbed us in the back".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/10/politics/larry-kudlow-donald-trump-justin-trudeau/index.html |title=Kudlow on Trudeau: 'It was a betrayal' |website=CNN |access-date=August 20, 2019 }}</ref>
Kudlow's tenure at the NEC concluded with the end of the first Trump administration in January 2021.
===Fox Business=== In February 2021, Kudlow joined the Fox Business Network as a host, following his tenure as director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump. Kudlow, known for his economic commentary, was given the platform to host a weekday show titled "Kudlow," which premiered in early 2021. His program is broadcast at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern Time, providing viewers with economic insights, market analysis, and discussions on fiscal policy with various experts and politicians.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Larry Kudlow to host new program on Fox Business Network|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/26/larry-kudlow-fox-462732|access-date=November 17, 2024|website=POLITICO|date=January 26, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Larry Kudlow joins Fox News Media as analyst, will host FOX Business Network show |url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/larry-kudlow-fox-news-fox-business|access-date=November 17, 2024|publisher=Fox Business|date=January 26, 2021}}</ref> His show focuses on economic issues from a generally conservative viewpoint, but he also engages in broader economic discussions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Larry Kudlow to remain at helm of FOX Business show amid Trump admin reports|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/larry-kudlow-to-remain-at-helm-of-fox-business-show-amid-trump-admin-reports|access-date=November 17, 2024|publisher=Fox Business|date=November 15, 2024}}</ref>
He declined an offer to serve in Donald Trump's second administration, opting instead to continue his work at Fox Business.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Nancy |last2=Mohsin |first2=Saleha |title=Trump Shifts Focus to Economic Team as Kudlow Rules Out Return |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-shifts-focus-economic-team-182945968.html |website=Yahoo News |access-date=November 17, 2024 |date=November 15, 2024}}</ref>
== Views == thumb|upright|Kudlow in 1981
A self-described "Reagan supply-sider", Kudlow is known for his support for tax cuts and deregulation.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21738909-larry-kudlow-quintessential-member-republican-partys-business-wing-president |title=President Trump appoints a new economic adviser |newspaper=The Economist |access-date=March 17, 2018 }}</ref> He argues that reducing tax rates will encourage economic growth and ultimately increase tax revenue and, while acknowledging the limits of growth, that economic growth will clear deficits.<ref name=":0" /> According to ''The Economist'', Kudlow is "the quintessential member of the Republican Party's business wing."<ref name=":1"/>
In 1993, Kudlow said that Bill Clinton's tax increases would dampen economic growth.<ref name=":1" />
Kudlow was a strong advocate of George W. Bush's substantial tax cuts, and argued that the tax cuts would lead to an economic boom of equal magnitude.<ref name=":0" /> After the implementation of the Bush tax cuts, Kudlow said year after year that the economy was in the middle of a "Bush boom", and chastised other commentators for failing to realize it.<ref name=":0" />
In their 2015 book ''Superforecasting'', University of Pennsylvania political scientist Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner refer to Kudlow as a "consistently wrong" pundit, and use Kudlow's long record of failed predictions to clarify common mistakes that poor forecasters make.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45OmCQAAQBAJ |title=Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction |last1=Tetlock |first1=Philip |last2=Gardner |first2=Dan |date=September 24, 2015 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4481-6659-6 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kudlow-trump-nafta-catastrophe-1.4576572 |title=Cancelling NAFTA would be a 'calamitously bad decision', says Trump's new economic adviser |publisher=CBC News |access-date=March 15, 2018 }}</ref>
Kudlow is not known as a deficit hawk.<ref name=":1" />
==Personal life== Kudlow has been married three times:<ref name="nytref1">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/03/business/a-wall-st-star-s-agonizing-confession.html |title=A Wall St. Star's Agonizing Confession |first1=Sylvia |last1=Nasar |first2=Alison Leigh |last2=Cowan |date=April 3, 1994 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref> In 1974, he married Nancy Ellen Gerstein, an editor in ''The New Yorker'' magazine's fiction department, with the marriage lasting about a year. In 1981, he married Susan (Cullman) Sicher, whose grandfather was businessman Joseph Cullman and whose great-grandfather was businessman Lyman G. Bloomingdale.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/style/susan-sicher-married-to-lawrence-kudlow.html |work=The New York Times |title=Susan Sicher Married to Lawrence Kudlow |date=March 23, 1981}}</ref> The Washington wedding was presided over by U.S. District Judge John Sirica. In 1986, he married Judith "Judy" Pond, a painter and Montana native.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.judithpondkudlow.com/ |title=Judith Pond Kudlow |website=judithpondkudlow.com |access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>
In the mid-1990s, Kudlow left Bear Stearns and entered a 12-step program in order to deal with his addictions to cocaine and alcohol. He subsequently converted to Catholicism under the guidance of Father C. John McCloskey III.<ref name="nytref1" />
Kudlow is a member of the Catholic Advisory Board of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avemariafunds.com/advisoryBoard.php|title=Catholic Advisory Board Members of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds|date=March 15, 2007|publisher=Avemariafunds.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717100420/http://www.avemariafunds.com/advisoryBoard.php|archive-date=July 17, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/larry-kudlow-5-things-to-know-about-the-bar-mitzvah-boy-turned-zionist-catholic/|title=Larry Kudlow: 5 things to know about the bar mitzvah boy turned Zionist Catholic|work=The Times of Israel|date=March 15, 2018|access-date=May 9, 2018}}</ref> He served as a member of the Fordham University Board of Trustees and is on the advisory committee of the Kemp Institute at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/kemp-institute/committee/|title=Jack Kemp Institute at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy|publisher=publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720030142/http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/kemp-institute/committee/|archive-date=July 20, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref>
On June 11, 2018, Kudlow suffered a mild heart attack.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wayne |first=Alex |access-date=June 11, 2018|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/trump-says-economic-adviser-kudlow-suffered-heart-attack|title=Kudlow Is 'Doing Well' After Mild Heart Attack, White House Says|date=June 11, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref> He was admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow suffers heart attack, Trump says |access-date=June 12, 2018 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/11/top-white-house-economic-adviser-larry-kudlow-suffers-heart-attack-trump-says/?noredirect=on}}</ref> and discharged two days later.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jeremy |last=Diamond |title=Kudlow hospitalized for heart attack, Trump tweets ahead of Kim summit |date=June 11, 2018 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/11/politics/larry-kudlow-trump-tweet/index.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Clare Foran |author2=Noah Gray |title=Larry Kudlow discharged from hospital after heart attack |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/politics/larry-kudlow-discharged-hospital/index.html |website=CNN|date=June 13, 2018 |access-date=June 13, 2018 }}</ref>
==Books== * ''American Abundance: The New Economic & Moral Prosperity'', 1997, HarperCollins, {{ISBN|0-8281-1117-0}} * ''Bullish On Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger'', 2004, Rowman & Littlefield, {{ISBN|1-56833-261-0}}, authored by Stephen Moore and with comments by Kudlow * ''Tide: Why Tax Cuts Are the Key to Prosperity and Freedom'', 2005, HarperCollins, {{ISBN|0-06-072345-9}} (audio CD) * ''JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity'', 2016, Portfolio, {{ISBN|1595231145}}, by Lawrence Kudlow (Author) and Brian Domitrovic (Author)
==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
==External links== {{Wikiquote}} {{Commons category}} * [https://www.foxbusiness.com/shows/kudlow Kudlow at Fox Business] * [https://www.kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/ Kudlow's Money Politic$] blog * [http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlows-money-politics Column archive] at ''National Review Online'' * [http://www.creators.com/opinion/lawrence-kudlow.html Column archive] at Creators Syndicate * {{C-SPAN|7374}} * {{IMDb name|2086569}}
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