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PHOENIX - Economist Larry Kudlow has joined the Bond Buyer's National Outlook Conference speaking faculty as keynote speaker Jan. 31 at the Metropolitan Club in New York.
Kudlow, a senior contributor at CNBC and staunch advocate for a free market economy, will speak at the 12:30 luncheon that day. Kudlow's career has taken him from the Federal Reserve Bank, to a top position in President Ronald Reagan's Office of Management and Budget, to chief economist at several Wall Street firms, to a television and radio host.
In addition to his television work, Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist and a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity, published by Forbes.
He was a 2014 media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and is presently on the board of directors of Hazelden New York, Catholic Cluster School of the Diocese of Bridgeport, a member of St. Patrick's Church Parish Council, and a former Fordham University Board of Trustees member. Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic research firm. He was formerly chief economist and senior managing director of Bear Stearns & Company.
Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.