Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow is a conservative, supply-side economist, syndicated columnist, and television show host. He currently hosts The Kudlow Report on CNBC.
Kudlow attended the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York where he graduated with a degree in history 1969.[1] He also attended Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He studied politics and economics but did not earn a degree, leaving before he could graduate.
He has served as chief economist on several Wall Street firms such as Bear, Stearns, was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee, and was associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President during Ronald Reagan's first term.[2]
Kudlow is the founder and CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic research firm.
Kudlow was born into a Jewish household, but after becoming addicted to cocain and alcohol, he converted to Catholicism. Kudlow credits the Church with helping him shake his addiction, and wrote, "The problem got much worse before I finally surrendered to God, literally on my knees, and began a new life of faith — and sobriety."[3]