Larry Kudlow Biography
Larry Kudlow is an American conservative broadcast news personality, columnist, and political commentator working for FBN as a host of Kudlow on FOX Business Network weekdays at 4 PM/ET. He joined the FBN news team in February 2021, after previously working for CNBC News.
Larry Kudlow Career
Kudlow’s first job was as a junior financial analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He quickly quit the government to work as a financial analyst on Wall Street for Paine Webber and Bear Stearns. Kudlow joined Ronald Reagan’s government as associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget in 1981. Before that, he had volunteered and worked for left-wing politicians and causes.
Kudlow left the Reagan administration during the second term and went back to work on Wall Street for Bear Stearns, where he was the firm’s top economist from 1987 to 1994. While this was going on, he also gave economic advice to Christine Todd Whitman’s bid for governor. After a public fight with cocaine and alcohol abuse in the late 1990s, Kudlow left Wall Street to become an economic media commentator. He started with National Review and later hosted several shows on CNBC.
In 1970, when Kudlow was still a Democrat, he joined Joseph Duffey, the chair of Americans for Democratic Action, in his “New Politics” campaign for senator in Connecticut. The campaign drew an “A-list crowd of young Democrats,” such as Bill Clinton, John Podesta, and Michael Medved, who would later become a conservative.
Duffey was one of the most important politicians who spoke out against the Vietnam War. Kudlow was called a “brilliant organizer” by Duffey’s campaign boss. In 1976, he worked with Tim Russert on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s campaign for the U.S. Senate against James L. Buckley, who was the candidate from the Conservative Party and was the brother of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Kudlow started his career as an economist on staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He joined the bank “as a junior economist in a job where a master’s degree wasn’t required.” He worked for the part of the Fed that was in charge of open market activities.
From 1981 to 1985, Kudlow worked as an associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is part of the Executive Office of the President. This was during Reagan’s first time in office. In April 2005, Kudlow was added to a six-person state tax committee by New York Governor George Pataki.
Republicans brought up Kudlow as a possible 2016 Senate candidate in either Connecticut or New York. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal called Kudlow “a champion of big corporations and big money” in an email to backers in October 2015, even though Kudlow hadn’t said he was running for office yet. At the beginning of December 2015, Jack Fowler of the National Review set up a 527 group to support Kudlow’s candidacy.
In May 2001, Kudlow was hired by National Review Online (NRO) as an Economics Editor. Kudlow wrote a piece for NRO in December 2007 called Bush Boom Continues. In it, he said that the economy would keep growing for years to come. That month was the start of the Great Recession, which was the worst economic slump since the 1930s.
Kudlow was one of several hosts on the CNBC show America Now, which first aired in November 2001. The show changed its name to Kudlow & Cramer in May 2002, and Kudlow and Jim Cramer took over as hosts for good. Cramer left in January 2005 to lead his show called Mad Money. The next month, the name of the show was changed to Kudlow & Company. The show took a break in October 2008 and came back in January 2009 as The Kudlow Report. It aired on CNBC until March 2014, when it stopped.
He also appears on Squawk Box often. Kudlow has written for MSN on CNBC.com. He was also a co-host and fill-in on The John Batchelor Show every Tuesday starting in 2004 until he quit to work as an economics assistant for President Trump. Kudlow began hosting a political and economics talk radio show on WABC in March 2006. The show was called “The Larry Kudlow Show,” and it ran on Saturday mornings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET and began airing across the US on June 5, 2010.
At FBN Kudlow works alongside Hillary Vaughn, Grady Trimble, Kelly Saberi, Taylor Riggs, Charles Payne, Jack Otter, Kelly O’Grady, Dagen McDowell, Kacie McDonnell, Stuart Varney, Elizabeth MacDonald, Susan Li, Edward Lawrence, Jeff Flock, Sean Duffy, Katrina Campins, Gerry Baker, and Madison Alworth.
Larry Kudlow Education
Kudlow went to The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, New Jersey until sixth grade. Then he went to the Dwight-Englewood School. In 1969, he got his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.
Besides the foreign policy classes he took at Princeton, he only has a college degree. However, he says that a lot of the topics in his history classes were about economics, especially trade policy. Kudlow went to Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for his master’s program in 1971, but he quit before finishing his degree.
Larry Kudlow Salary
Kudlow earns a salary of about $1M-$3M annually.
Larry Kudlow Net Worth
Kudlow has an estimated net worth of about $10 Million – $20 Million which he has earned through his career as a news personality.
Larry Kudlow Age
Kudlow was born on August 20, 1947, in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. He is 76 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 20th of August every year.
Larry Kudlow Height and Weight
Kudlow stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 76 kgs (167 lbs).
Larry Kudlow Family
Kudlow was born and raised in New Jersey, United States to Ruth Grodnick Kudlow (mother) and Irving Howard Kudlow (father) and they are a Jewish family. He has not mentioned if he has any siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Larry Kudlow Wife and Children
Kudlow has been married a total of three times in his life. He first married Nancy Ellen Gerstein in 1974, who is an editor in the New Yorker magazine’s fiction department. They were blessed with two children; Kaitlyn and Tara and later divorced in 1975 due to unknown reasons. He then married Susan Cullman Sicher in 1981. Susan’s great-grandfather was a business tycoon named Lyman G. Bloomingdale and her grandfather was also a business tycoon named Joseph Cullman.
Kudlow and Susan tied the knot in a civil wedding and were presided over by a U.S. District Judge named John Sirica and were blessed with one child named Jimmy. Five years later they divorced and Kudlow married Judith Pond, a painter from Montana in 1986. It is not known whether he has children with his current wife Judith. However, this information will be updated when available.
Larry Kudlow Plant-Based Beer
In April 2021, Kudlow said on his Fox Business show that Biden’s plans to cut down on emissions and protect the environment would make people “stop eating meat, stop eating poultry, stop eating fish, seafood, eggs, dairy, and animal-based fats.” Beer is made from grain, hops, and yeast but not meat like steak, sausage, or chops. Amidst a storm of hurtful social media jabs, Paul Krugman, a columnist for The New York Times, gave a serious look at what Kudlow was executing.
Larry Kudlow Podcast
In Kudlow’s podcast, Kudlow talks about the markets, the economy, and politics from his point of view. He will share his knowledge and experience to help people better understand how the economy and politics will change in the future. He is a strong backer of capitalism and free markets and his show is presented by Priority Gold.
Larry Kudlow Social Media Platforms
Kudlow is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 245k followers on Twitter 27.6k followers on Instagram and 1.8k followers on Facebook.