Friday, June 12, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: Larry Kudlow's hazy crystal ball (part 2)



Quoted in Kudlow Assures Wall Street ‘No Second Spike,’ As Coronavirus Numbers Continues To Grow.  (Forbes, 6/12/2020)


4/7/2020 update starts here


Reported in Virus Battle Shreds the Right's Political Playbook.  (The New York Times, 4/5/2020)

Care to reconsider, Larry?


Original 3/9/2020 post, "Channeling Bloody Mary:  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on the Coronavirus", starts here.


Quoted in ‘Doomed from the Start.’ Experts Say the Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Response Was Never Going to Work.  (Time, 3/5/2020)


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Kudlow doesn't have the best track record.
Kudlow became Economics Editor at National Review Online (NRO) in May 2001. In December 2007, NRO published a Kudlow article entitled Bush Boom Continues, in which he asserted the economy would continue to expand for years to come.The Great Recession, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, began that month. [Wikipedia]

Related posts:
March 2020
Coronavirus point/counterpoint, starring a grumbling Donald Trump,  (3/9/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Sean Duffy's daughter ridiculed for parroting inane GOP talking point. (3/9/2020)
Dear New York Times, It's called bullying. It's an act of aggression. It has nothing to do with strength of character. Best, Retiring Guy.  (3/9/2020)
Worldometer (and others) track the coronavirus.  (3/7/2020)
Dear Mike Pence, How's that coronavirus messaging stacking up? Best, Retiring Guy.  (3/5/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: To combat the coronavirus epidemic, Iran's leaders choose a terrible idea.  (3/4/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Trump fumes as coronavirus tanks stock market, sends re-election campaign strategy off a cliff.  (3/2/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Pence offers disturbing example of White House's disciplined approach to coronavirus messaging.  (3/2/2020

February 2020
The company he keeps: the Alex Azar connections.  (2/28/2020)
Meet Russell Vought, the 'acting' GOP hack that Trump installed at OMB.  (2/25/2020)
Dear Trump loyalists Richard Shelby and Bradley Byrne, There's this other kind of flu goin' round. Best, Retiring Guy.  (2/24/2020)

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