Kudlow

All the headlines from Mr. Trump’s UN speech are focused on his prior statements warning Iran that they either make a deal or face annihilation. I believe annihilation refers to the regime. And he warned them not to focus on the midterm elections because he’s gonna be President for another two and a half years. So, in effect, Mr. Trump discounted the midterm elections, and took them off the table....

With 43 days until the midterm election, the mainstream media may be hedging its bets about Democratic victory and Republican destruction. One of the first cracks in the armor is an NBC poll that shows Dems edging out Republicans 50% to 45% among registered voters. Looks like a nice lead but is it really? The story notes that it’s a lot slimmer edge than the 12 point lead Dems had in the 2018 cycl...

The NY Times is at it again with a long hit piece on the American economy and the dollar. Virtually every claim they make is factually wrong. I've got a couple numbers for you. Maybe the most important error in the NY Times piece was their failure to cite that 89% of foreign exchange trades are dollar based. Now if that isn't King Dollar, I don't know what it. And the principal stable coins are do...

First thing’s first, the Fed raised its target rate by a quarter of a point in Kevin Warsh’s quest to reduce the inflation rate he inherited from Joe Biden and Jay Powell, from over 3%, to at least 2%, and perhaps moving it toward zero. And then in the next 24 hours, financial markets applauded. With Jason Katz, Art Laffer, Michael Faulkender, Brian Wesbury, Mary Katharine Ham, Joe Concha and Roge...

Let’s begin at the beginning. Low taxes, light regulation, abundant energy, and a strong dollar, are the keys to economic prosperity. And prosperity is as American as apple pie. And though nothing is ever perfect, at the moment I would argue, the American economy is in a very prosperous position, roughly a year after Mr. Trump and the Republicans passed their one, big, beautiful bill.   With...

Hat tip to Attorney General Todd Blanche for wondering out loud why all of a sudden, the media and the Democratic Party, and Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders, are suddenly hyperventilating over the hyper scalers on the eve of an important midterm election, where Democrats have insanely nominated a bunch of hyper socialists who are gonna get whooped on November 3. By the way, the hypervent...

I’m surely not your run-of-the-mill expert on the frontiers of artificial intelligence. I have some sense of models, agents, and bots. And I think I understand concerns that rogue AI agents can break free of their human instructions, or what the industry sometimes calls quote “misalignment.” Yes, humans need to be able to keep control of the machines. But I also know something about election year...

25 years later, after the horrific sneak attack on the twin towers, and then the Pentagon, and then the great bravery and the awful plane crash that landed in Shanksville Pennsylvania, instead of congress, 25 years later I want to say America is winning. Have we completely won the war against terror? No. But there have been no major attacks in the 25-year period.  With Charlie Gasparino, Joe...

"America belongs to those who love it". It’s a beautiful line from President Trump’s speech. And he added, “on election night we’re going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it.” Of course, he was talking about the far left, antisemitic, big government socialists, who have become the tail that wags the Democratic party dog. With Liz Peek, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Steve Moore, Pierr...

President Trump will speak to the nation tonight from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. To quote my friend Kellyanne Conway, the GOP has the money, the message, but they don’t have the right sales pitch. That’s Mr. Trump’s assignment tonight, and there’s no one who can make a sale the way he can. With Newt Gingrich, Rep Byron Donalds, Michael Faulkender, Victor Davis Hanson and Gov Sara...

There are reports that the administration is cooking up a plan to allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to collect childcare subsidies, using funds from an HHS program, also intended to assist working parents. The HHS fund was created a while back to help low income and working-class parents afford childcare, so they could go to work. Kind of sounds like taking from Peter in order to gi...

Right on cue, the media got ready to print a bad jobs report for August, and then SLAM,  the number comes out 162,000. About 3 times the Wall Streetconsensus. Of course, most of Wall Street and their liberal pals in the media just love to ignore eight straight manufacturing ISM increases, and fifteen straight monthly ISM services increases. And tremendous gains in industrial production a...

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When I sat down with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in front of the G20 conference in Asheville, North Carolina yesterday, my intent was to work with the Secretary and promote an economic growth message. And he was more than cooperative, at the top of his game. With John Carney, Steve Forbes, Newt Gingrich, Kellyanne Conway, and Miranda Devine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

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President Trump gave three brilliant speeches over July 4th weekend. First at the freedom and faith convention, then at Mount Rushmore, and then on July 4th at the national mall in Washington DC. Basically, he emphasized two large scale thoughts. First, America’s greatness both past, present and future. And second, godless communism is a mortal threat that must be extinguished without delay. And h...

The clearest and most straightforward condition in the performance-based deal with Iran was a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz with no tolls. Freedom of navigation is a long-standing international principle. So, the Iranians have been firing on ships and firing on Gulf states. And firing on American military bases. Thereby violating the so-called ceasefire and violating the so-called MOU. So, Pre...

It’s time to cut the capital gains tax. Right now. If there’s a 3.0 reconciliation budget bill that requires only 50 Republican votes plus Veep Vance for 51, the GOP can do it. Put a capital gains tax cut in that 3.0. It’ll add growth to the GOP message. Polls show that in addition to the voter ID bill, voters want government fraud to be cleaned up, and they’d like middle class tax cuts for growth...

America's free enterprise keeps on winning. The facts speak for themselves. Throughout the July 4th 250 weekend, President Trump’s speeches, especially at Mount Rushmore and the National Mall, really made two key points. One was the greatness of America, the home of Freedom, the land of liberty, a country whose founding creed was that its citizens receive their rights from God our creator. Hence t...

President Donald Trump champions American exceptionalism, warning against communism and democratic socialism ahead of July 4th. Guest host David Asman with Lou Basenese, Tim Doescher, Ben Ferguson, Gianno Caldwell, Victoria Coates, Reps Claudia Tenney and Pat Fallon, and Mollie Hemingway, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I keep thinking about freedom and free-enterprise, liberty and limited government, the rule of law and private property, free market competition, and individual incentives. They all go together. They all underscore the greatness of American core values. But we must defend freedom and free enterprise. With House Speaker Mike Johnson, Art Laffer, Michael Faulkender, Jonathan Turley, Ben Domenech, Re...

We’re getting close to our July 4th, 250th anniversary which means we should all be thinking and talking about the greatest sentence in the English language and probably in all history, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  That sentence is the epitome of freedom an...

The Supreme Court ruled that Joe Biden’s appointee to the Federal Trade Commission could be fired by President Trump. Justice Neil Gorsuch writing for the court’s decision said, “independent agencies are not so independent after all.” Well that I like. Makes perfect sense. But what I don’t understand is how the Supremes let Lisa Cook off the hook regarding the Federal Reserve. With Gregg Jarrett,...

President Trump tore into the antisemitic Mamdani socialist/communist movement at his Faith and Freedom Coalition speech today saying that religion is back. American greatness has been forged by people of faith. America is one nation under God and we’re not changing that.  With Gianno Caldwell, Charlie Hurt, General Keith Kellogg, Jim McLaughlin, EJ Antoni, Michael Faulkender and Kevin McCarthy.  ...