Comments on: My One Year Kudlow Anniversary!

By: rktbrkr

rktbrkr — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:34:24 +0000

Peter Davies – Amen!

By: jason in charlotte

jason in charlotte — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:05:41 +0000

I’m glad the clip included Larry’s featured fumbler, Don Luskin. This guy’s house has got to be approaching foreclosure. I distinctly recall that he finally became bearish right at the March bottom, on a political basis, of course.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:11:48 +0000

The Kudblow Report is poorer for your absence, Barry, that’s clear. The man’s an optimist (I’ll give him that) but rather to the point of absurdity. You will seldom if ever hear Larry the K acknowledge consumers or taxpayers or regular Joes and their travails, lack of savings, indebtedness, uncertain future etc. Frankly I think he holds the average man in very low regard. He seems convinced that he and his investor class are the chosen ones, the shiny and brilliant that make America Great! Quite vulgar, really. Still, with these truths in mind and a drink in hand his show can entertain in its own way, from time to time.

By: rileyx67

rileyx67 — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:36:13 +0000

Wow, just watched the entire segment again…whoever suggested a one year “reunion” was right on…Larry, Luskin and Jimmy P would be subject to deserved humiliation for being so wrong on everything…and “The winner IS…Barry!”

By: Moss

Moss — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:00:32 +0000

Kudlow will never change that I can assure you. What u are seeing at CNBC are subtle shifts away from their tilted biases. Ratigan leaving was a wake up call but they will have to adapt to the general shift in the populous. They are giving the left much more air time as evidenced by appearances from Dean, Huffington, Dan Gross and others. Looks like Kneale is history from the day time programs.

By: Elgin Baylor

Elgin Baylor — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:35:15 +0000

I like Larry — I would never give him money to manage — but he is a great entertainer.

Some of his guests I can take or leave . . .

By: Peter Davies

Peter Davies — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:28:23 +0000

CNBC USA should be renamed SCREAMING CNBC because that sums up its modus operandi: get a group of people to yell at each other with a heavy dosage of over-simplistic Righty vs Lefty and xenophobic content thrown in. The goal is simple: win the ratings contest with the other screamers haven at FOX business news. The fact that the programs frequently offer appalling investment advice is completely ignored in pursuit of this goal.

Kudlow is the Screamer-in-Chief with a strong supporting chorus: Bartiromo, Cramer, Santelli, Neal, Francis, et al.

Look at Kudlow’s record:

1. He has no proper qualifications in economics, business or finance. He has a BA in history from Rochester but dropped out of graduate school at Princeton where he was supposedly studying politics and economics.
2. He was a Democrat who became a Republican.
3. He was a Vietnam era draft dodger who morphed into a strong supporter of the Iraq war and the use of military force to achieve goals. This is a common trait among “tough guy” neocons. George Bush used his connections to get into a flying club called the Texas National Air Guard while Cheney, Wolfowitz and Perle were are all draft dodgers. However, this motley crew became loud exponents of policies which cost American blood and treasure as long as it wasn’t their blood and treasure.
4. His on-air positions and advice on the markets are a disgrace.

Kudlow was a drugs and alcohol abuser who to his credit became sober; however, with that he morphed again from being an intoxicated charlatan and loudmouth to just a charlatan and loudmouth.

Any investment advisor worth his salt wouldn’t go anywhere near Kudlow on air. The only reason to do so would be to soundly refute his idiotic statements but, as Barry and others have discovered, they will just get shouted down by Kudlow and his assembled arse kissers.

Kudlow’s program is analogous to an all-in wrestling program. It offers contrived vocal violence instead of contrived physical violence. Its owners know it’s a scam and its participants know it’s a scam; however, it makes money for both. If you just treat it as a gratuitous spectacle to watch when you have nothing better to do, that’s fine but never, ever treat it as source of sound investment advice.

If you need sound investment advice, avoid CNBC USA altogether and go to Bloomberg or BNN Toronto. If you can get them, CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia generally offer much better programming than the junk served up by their parent at Englewood Cliffs New Jersey.

By: primordial_ooze

primordial_ooze — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:08:06 +0000

Sometimes this blog is too much about Barry and his book.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:02:27 +0000

I never watch Kudlow as the show is aired on CNBC Europe. They spare us from this obnoxious nonsense. Don Luskin is pathetic.

By: SWMOD52

SWMOD52 — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:49:05 +0000

Kudlow is a very likable guy. I watched him almost every day in 2007 -2008 trying to learn something. I think he did his viewers a great diservice by basically berating anyone who was not bullish. Kass, Shilling, etc. Were mocked and ridiculed when the honest approach would be to carefully listen to what all the guests had to say.

So in the end, for me, Larry is out (like a lot of people who got it wrong in 2008).