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Kudlow says extra $600 for unemployment benefits will end in July

The director of the National Economic Council called the benefits a “disincentive” for people to get back to work.
Kudlow says the Trump administration is looking at a potential bonus for people returning to work.
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How tax cuts get "paid for"

Jul 11, 2019
Can a tax cut pay for itself? We dive into the language used by the president's chief economic adviser.
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Kudlow: “Don’t class warfare me” on trade

Aug 3, 2018
In a wide-ranging interview, the president’s top economic adviser told Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal that tariffs are not hurting economic growth.
Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, holds a news briefing at the White House in June.
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Americans do want tariff relief

Aug 3, 2018
Manufacturers and farmers we talked to are frustrated by the import taxes and the exemption process.
A worker is surrounded by sparks from molten steel flowing into casts at the TAMCO steel mini mill in Rancho Cucamonga, California, in 2002.
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A world without NAFTA. How would that work?

Jun 5, 2018
After more than a year of three-party talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump’s top economic aide says a new approach is needed. Larry Kudlow told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning that the administration now prefers to negotiate with Mexico and Canada separately. “When you have to compromise with a […]

IMF bumps up U.S. growth projections for 2018

Apr 17, 2018
The International Monetary Fund raised its growth target for the American economy today to 2.9 percent. That’s very close to the three percent forecast the Trump administration promised.  In a conversation about President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and the overall state of the economy on Fox News this morning,  Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow said we […]

"We were using duct tape and string to try to hold the thing together"

Mar 16, 2018
We get a preview of Kai's interview with Tim Geithner, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke.
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