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• Scheinberg: Academia’s Bitter Medicine is Our Business Plan Tuesday, 24 Apr 2012 | 1:59 PM ET

  

  What if a college did not spend its resources on sports stadiums? What if it quit the competitive "arms race" and did not build climbing walls and multimillion dollar student unions? What if a college did not spend its students’ resources on top "name brand" researchers, who undergraduates rarely see? In fact, what if there was no faculty tenure at all?

• Maney: The Internet May Be the Key to Managing Runaway College Costs Tuesday, 24 Apr 2012 | 12:44 PM ET

  

  The rampant inflation in the cost of U.S. higher education since 1980 makes gasoline and healthcare price hikes over the same period look like an Indy car racing a pair of old-school Volkswagen vans.

• Small Biz Tax Cuts: Moot, Except as Political Fodder Friday, 20 Apr 2012 | 2:08 PM ET

  

  No one expects Rep. Eric Cantor’s proposed 20 percent tax cut for small business owners to get any farther than the House. But that's not the point. This is purely a "he-said, she-said" moment where both parties take every opportunity to point out how the other side doesn't support small business.

• Government Spending Cuts Will Create Economic Boom: Art Laffer Thursday, 5 Apr 2012 | 8:28 PM ET

  

  President Obama’s recent criticism of the Republican budget plan misses the mark, former Reagan economic advisor Art Laffer told Larry Kudlow Thursday.

• Wearing Hoodie In Congress: Fair Protest or Disrespectful? Wednesday, 28 Mar 2012 | 8:20 PM ET

  Congressman Bobby Rush got kicked off the House floor for wearing a hoodie in protest of the killing of Trayvon Martin. In an interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, he said it a proper protest, a voice of the people, but Kudlow said it was disrespectful and made a mockery of "the people's House."

• Obamacare Will Bankrupt US: Rep. Paul Ryan Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012 | 8:56 PM ET

  

  President Obama's health care law, now in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, will cause an implosion of the health care system and an implosion of our public debt, Ryan told Larry Kudlow.

• Should Court Toss Out Health Care Mandate? Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | 8:35 PM ET

  

  As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over President Obama’s health care law, the biggest issue is over whether the individual insurance requirement is constitutional. However, according to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, there is already a mandate in place, so tossing it out won’t solve the nation’s health care problems.

• SEC's High-Frequency Trading Probe—Good for Traders? Friday, 23 Mar 2012 | 9:30 PM ET

  

  Traders should welcome the SEC's plan to investigate high-frequency trading, Themis Trading’s Joe Saluzzi said on CNBC.

• Ron Paul: GOP Race Needs to 'Drag Out' Thursday, 22 Mar 2012 | 8:43 PM ET

  

  GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is not ready to throw in the towel and doesn’t think his competitors should yet either, he told CNBC Thursday.

• Oil Boom to Create Jobs: SandRidge Energy CEO Thursday, 22 Mar 2012 | 8:21 PM ET

  

  SandRidge Energy CEO Tom Ward says with the oil renaissance going on, the Keystone XL Pipeline is important.

• Ed Morse: Energy to Spark ‘Industrial Revolution’ Wednesday, 21 Mar 2012 | 9:05 PM ET

  The United States is on the verge of a new industrial revolution as the result of a domestic energy boom, Citigroup’s head of global commodities research said Wednesday.

• Sen. DeMint Blasts Democrats Over Start-Ups, Gas, Budget Wednesday, 21 Mar 2012 | 3:58 PM ET

  

  Sen. Jim DeMint on Tuesday took Democrats to task for failed investment measure, price of gas.

• Alan Blinder Warns of U.S. Fiscal 2013 Cliff Monday, 19 Mar 2012 | 9:08 PM ET

  

  The U.S. economy could be headed toward a fiscal cliff if a few underlying issues go unaddressed, former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder said Monday.

• The Reason for Rising Oil Prices: Dan Yergin Friday, 16 Mar 2012 | 9:06 PM ET

  Tensions over Iran and the sanctions against the country are the main reasons for surging oil prices, Cambridge Energy Research Associates Chairman Dan Yergin told CNBC Friday.

• Dodd-Frank Could Shutter Many Community Banks: Former FDIC Chair Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012 | 9:07 PM ET

  Without relief from Dodd-Frank, former FDIC chairman Bill Isaac said he wouldn't be surprised if half of the community banks in the U.S. went out of business.

• Romney on CNBC: Primaries Have Made Him ‘Tougher’ Monday, 5 Mar 2012 | 4:00 PM ET

  

  A new poll shows the combative primary season has hurt the GOP and the candidates. However, Mitt Romney tells CNBC's Larry Kudlow it’s made him more prepared to take on President Obama.

• New Hampshire: Vote Free or Die Friday, 6 Jan 2012 | 7:23 PM ET

  

  Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary is a perfect venue for Granite Staters, living in the shadow of the carcasses of factories, to make their voices heard nationwide. Kudlow's Executive Producer Albert Lewitinn hopes the residents don’t deliberately stay home.

• When You Wish Upon A Star Thursday, 1 Dec 2011 | 2:25 PM ET

  I celebrate my birthday today. As I will blow out the ever-expanding number of candles on birthday cake tonight, I will have a list of wishes I want to come true.

• Unlucky $13 Challenge to Our Recovery Tuesday, 27 Sep 2011 | 3:54 PM ET

  

  Why toll hikes on bridges and tunnels from New Jersey to New York City will have nation-wide implications.

• One-on-One with Thomas Hoenig Tuesday, 24 May 2011 | 5:43 PM ET

  

  He’s a straight-shooting, hard-money, free market central banker—an unusual combination. Hoenig is also a man of integrity who dissents from the FOMC so clearly in his disagreement with ultra-easy money. Incidentally, he believes that Too-Big-To-Fail and “Bailout Nation” are moving America away from free market capitalism.