Talk:Larry Kudlow/Archives/2015

Clean-up of article

The events mentioned in the article need to be ordered chronologically, i.e., what Kudlow did first, comes first in the article. The years in which he was in specific jobs need to be specified.

The events need to be explained more accurately, with more details and facts.

One enormous aspect of Kudlow's bio needs to be delved into, and that is what he did about the draft and the biggest war of his lifetime (Vietnam). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.97.69.229 (talk) 00:47, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

The individual facts must be checked.

Also Larry Kudlow is a practicing Catholic (mentioned on his show 10/09/2012. In addition, the article does not describe Kudlow's shift from liberalism to conservatism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.179.83 (talk) 02:51, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Attention from "experts", expansion, and cleanup of the article, POV/NPOV

1 - Honestly, this article needs some cleanup. Also, since a great majority of the edits were made by only one person, it may not conform with the "neutral point of view" thing, or whatever it's called.

2 - Someone who knows more about supply-side economics should expand the article and put it in some context and explain what Kudlow did on his jobs and give dates and numbers. The separate facts need to be interwoven and need to be put in some context. This article looks like a skeleton with no flesh. The relationship between Kudlow and supply-side economics has to be explained in a way that is easy to undertand for readers who don't know much about the topic.

3 - Also, it should be explained why and how and when Kudlow began taking drugs, and how he recovered, and what it has to do with his personal and professional and religious life. For example, did he start taking cocaine or drinking too much because he felt too much pressure while working or because of personal problems, or both?

4 - Nothing is told about his youth nor his first two marriages.

5 - What conflicts has Kudlow had in politics? Who has criticized him, how and why? Who has supported him? What about his relationship to James Cramer who supports the Democratic Party, or Kudlow's frequent debates with Paul Krugman? Why do certain people appear on his TV programs and not others?

6 - Where did he learn about supply-side economics? What exactly did he do at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York? What is his legacy from his time at the Office of Management and Budget? What did he do at Bear Stearns?

7 - Also, the article needs some serious linguistic, orthographic and grammatical cleanup.

8 - The different facts in the article have to be connected somehow, and not just stand loose. The paragraphs need to be expanded with more details. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 16:43, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

If you don't mind, I put paragraph numbers on your comments, so that they can each be better addressed. I'll try to take another look at the article to see what I can do (which is far from everything that needs to be done). Stancollins 15:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, I think I can start it off. I must admit my first reaction on seeing this page was that somebody must have added as many tags as they could think of just for their own sake ;-). On reading it and starting to edit it, most of them were justified, and some still are.

However, pending other discussion on point 1, I suggest removal of the neutrality tag. The virtue of this fact-based presentation (acknowledging its faults) is that there's not much here that you can claim unduly editorializes on Kudlow in either direction.

On paragraph 2, I think I will eliminate the 'too technical' tag. I've added one supply-side detail in the Laffer and open market operations sections, and other than that, I don't think technical jargon or theory is the primary problem--in fact, adding too much more could hurt it from that point of view. The technical terms are linked, so anyone who wants to look them up can. I do agree that the article is a lot of bare-bones facts and no real story, though, so I will leave the other 'expert' tag.

3 through 6 I know nothing about, so I can't help.

The edits on 7 and 8 are ongoing, and while I think it's been improved, I wouldn't suggest removing the cleanup tag yet.

Also, somewhere between the cleanup, expansion, expert, and technical edit, there was a good bit of redundancy. I got rid of the expansion tag, as it was the least specific of them all.

Stancollins 15:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

“NPOV”?

From Peter Johnson [22:22, 21 November 2005 (UTC)]: I removed the NPOV tag, as no such concerns are expressed on the Talk page, and I did not detect the NPOV myself.

Photo

A photo was added to the article in June, but Image:kudlow.bmp does not exist. I've commented out the image in the article and added a "reqphoto" tag at the top of the talk page. Cheers, CWC(talk) 10:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Augustus emp posted a new photo of Kudlow. I had to laugh. It looks like there's a squirming frog in his mouth and he's trying desperately to prevent it from leaping out. I'm not sure if this helps the article or hurts it, but it's definitely worth a giggle. Comments? --Mike Duskis (talk) 02:10, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

His lack of a degree in economics

His lack of a degree in economics should get one mention and not three. patsw 02:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Now it is not mentioned at all. I will put one mention of it back into the text.

I also graduated from the University of Rochester (but with a BA Economics and Political Science). After reading more about Mr. Kudlow, I kind of wish the reference to the UofR would be removed from his entry. TomWoolf (talk) 17:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Not Roman Catholic

I went to prep school with Kudlow. The prayers said on some mornings were not Roman Catholic, but protestant.71.207.149.199 (talk) 02:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

As the article says Kudlow converted to Catholocism in the 1990s. Therefore, your memories of the kind of prayers he said in High School are irrelevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.244.237.114 (talk) 23:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

If he grew up Protestant and converted to Catholicism than he absolutely should not be listed as Jewish, whether he was born a Jew or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.17.146.166 (talk) 15:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

For what it is worth, if his mother was Jewish, then he was a Jew until he converted, by Jewish law. Thus, I think it is definitely worth mentioning in his biography. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.139.71.69 (talk) 16:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Is it worth mentioning that his prep school had a prayer (of ANY denomination) before school? Hectard (talk) 00:12, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I think it is worth mentioning. First, he's of an age when religious indoctrination was standard in school - even public schools. Second, it helps explain WHY he thinks as he does. 72.237.117.227 (talk) 19:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Drill Drill Drill

Larry often emphasizes his views on energy policy. Should that be included in the article? Ephesians 2:10 (talk) 01:12, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

New York Magazine piece 1996

http://books.google.com/books?id=bOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36&dq=kudlow+%22hollow%20man%22#v=onepage&q&f=false

It's an extensive biography of Kudlow up to 1996. Material from this should be used more extensively in this article, instead of cherry-picking what kind of prayer was said at his grade school. I used it to fill in a blank reference for the SDS factoid. Cookiehead (talk) 16:48, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Same ol' leftist crap

On March 13, 2011, in response to the Japanese earthquake, Kudlow said "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that." He later apologized on his Twitter, saying "talking about markets.I flubbed the line. Sincere apology."

Really? what kind of an idiot finds this noteworthy? 99.204.41.51 (talk) 07:06, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

It was I. You're right though, it isn't noteworthy. I've removed it. InverseHypercube 07:27, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I wish

I'd like to learn from this article how and why Mr. Kudlow shifted his views from left to right. Also, something more specific about his early family life. Was he really a member of the fox-hunting crowd -- or is this just something he seeks to project? --Banned editor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.250.61.95 (talk) 01:15, 24 March 2013 (UTC)