Print Larry Kudlow Read Full Bio IRS Scandal Warrants Independent Special Counsel When you get right down to it, the political targeting and stalling of tax-exempt applications by the IRS was an effort to defund the Tea Party. Rick Santelli, one of the Tea Party founders and my CNBC colleague, was the first to make this point. I’ve taken it a step further: The IRS was taking the Tea Party out of play for the 2012 election, as it looked to avoid a repeat of 2010 and another Tea Party landslide. 17 May 2013 April Jobs Aside, We’re Falling Behind And with all the hysteria over the economic evils of the spending-cut sequester, government jobs have fallen only by an average 5,000 over the past three months -- dwarfed by private job gains. Keynesians should weep. So might President Obama. The sequester doom and gloom has not come to pass. In fact, 4 percent real growth in the private economy in the first quarter far outstrips the slippage in government spending. 4 May 2013 Thatcher, Freedom, and Free Markets Mrs. Thatcher famously said, “The trouble with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.” That dictum really stands the test of time, doesn’t it? Running out of other people’s money? Today? 8 Apr 2013 GOP Prepares Strategic Retreat on Fiscal Cliff After speaking with prominent Republican House and Senate members, I have come to believe the following: The GOP knows that Obama has the upper hand in this post-election battle. Therefore, they are preparing a strategic retreat. 11 Dec 2012 A Global Recession? The Warning Signs Are Everywhere Here at home, ex-Clinton strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg sent a memo to President Obama telling him that his campaign message of slow and steady recovery progress is out of touch with Main Street America. They’re right. Of course, Obama’s “private sector is doing just fine” statement is part and parcel of his disconnect from economic reality. 10 Jul 2012 Obama's Class-Warfare, Tax-the-Rich Budget If you shake out the Obama budget in terms of bold headlines, it’s really a class-warfare, tax-the-rich budget. Layer upon layer of tax hikes are piled on successful investors, small-business owners, and corporations. 15 Feb 2012 Message to Mitt: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats 4 Feb 2012 Romney's Attack on Crony Capitalism 21 Jan 2012 The GOP Needs a Bolder Growth Message 7 Jan 2012 SuperCommittee Tax Hike Spells Disaster 18 Nov 2011 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
IRS Scandal Warrants Independent Special Counsel When you get right down to it, the political targeting and stalling of tax-exempt applications by the IRS was an effort to defund the Tea Party. Rick Santelli, one of the Tea Party founders and my CNBC colleague, was the first to make this point. I’ve taken it a step further: The IRS was taking the Tea Party out of play for the 2012 election, as it looked to avoid a repeat of 2010 and another Tea Party landslide. 17 May 2013
April Jobs Aside, We’re Falling Behind And with all the hysteria over the economic evils of the spending-cut sequester, government jobs have fallen only by an average 5,000 over the past three months -- dwarfed by private job gains. Keynesians should weep. So might President Obama. The sequester doom and gloom has not come to pass. In fact, 4 percent real growth in the private economy in the first quarter far outstrips the slippage in government spending. 4 May 2013
Thatcher, Freedom, and Free Markets Mrs. Thatcher famously said, “The trouble with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.” That dictum really stands the test of time, doesn’t it? Running out of other people’s money? Today? 8 Apr 2013
GOP Prepares Strategic Retreat on Fiscal Cliff After speaking with prominent Republican House and Senate members, I have come to believe the following: The GOP knows that Obama has the upper hand in this post-election battle. Therefore, they are preparing a strategic retreat. 11 Dec 2012
A Global Recession? The Warning Signs Are Everywhere Here at home, ex-Clinton strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg sent a memo to President Obama telling him that his campaign message of slow and steady recovery progress is out of touch with Main Street America. They’re right. Of course, Obama’s “private sector is doing just fine” statement is part and parcel of his disconnect from economic reality. 10 Jul 2012
Obama's Class-Warfare, Tax-the-Rich Budget If you shake out the Obama budget in terms of bold headlines, it’s really a class-warfare, tax-the-rich budget. Layer upon layer of tax hikes are piled on successful investors, small-business owners, and corporations. 15 Feb 2012
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