While the stock market is cheering easy money, the cheering is very short-sighted. I wouldn’t buck the tape, but I regard the Fed’s policy as a storm cloud over stocks and the future economy. Read More
President Obama and Nancy Pelosi got their ears pounded back over big spending, taxes, the health-care takeover, cap-and-trade, and well, the fact that government is getting too darned big under this crowd in Washington. Read More
Here's former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's take on last night's Kudlow Report discussing President Obama's handling of the economy, stimulus programs, healthcare and much more. Read More
Against the backdrop of high unemployment and a public revolt against a Democratic health-care bill — which would significantly increase taxes, slash Medicare spending, and massively raise health-care spending elsewhere in a government takeover of our leading growth sector —a three-race sweep by Republicans is very much in play this Election Day. Read More
As the economy recovers, where’s the exit strategy for all this stimulus? To protect the dollar, the Fed should be raising its target rate, or at the very least hint at raising it by changing the wording of next week’s policy statement. Read More
Last night I had the pleasure of speaking with distinguished Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on whether this high-tax, high-premium, deficit-ridden government takeover of the U.S. economy can be stopped Read More
It must be something in the water. The ruling Democrats know their tax-hiking, re-regulating, and big-spending policies have failed to rejuvenate job-creation or reduce the unemployment rate. And yet they persist in trying more of the same. Read More
Market commenter David Goldman was on the show last night, explaining the bubble that's formed in toxic, low-rated tranches of commercial real estate, as well as the rapid march by Asian nations to get out from under the dollar trap. Read More
Here’s a question: If unemployment is the problem, then why aren’t supply-side tax cuts, along with tougher government budgetary restraints, a possible solution? Read More