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5 days ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
So I guess it wouldn’t be any fun if a big beautiful tax bill going through the legislative meat grinder wasn’t rife with rumors about tax hikes.
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6 days ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
Like so many of us, in and out of the Catholic faith, I never thought I’d see an American pope. Robert Cardinal Prevost. A genuine, authentic, Made in America pontiff. From Chicago, a graduate of Villanova University — where he was a math major, in the order of Saint Augustine. He worked in Peru and served time in the Vatican — where, by the way, Pope Francis appointed him to various administrative positions. So perhaps he can clean up the Holy See’s financial problems.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
Treasury Man Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are going to Switzerland to meet with Communist Chinese officials, and I am sure it’s a good idea. They’re apparently going to de-escalate — or perhaps even negotiate an end to the United States-China trade war. Yet I’m also pleased that President Trump is keeping a hard line by ruling out today lowering his tariffs on China at the present time. I do, however, kind of wish Peter Navarro were going on this trip. Why?
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
Last night, I had dinner with several Canadian chief executives, all of whom do business in America and are proud to be American allies down through the years. Yet they asked me why President Trump keeps talking about Canada as the 51st state, when Canadians themselves are proud of their country’s sovereignty. Now, as a strong defender of Mr. Trump’s reciprocal fair trade policy, I still can’t figure out the 51st state business. Frankly, I told them they’d have to ask Mr. Trump himself.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
Last week’s numbers showed how resilient the American economy truly is. Business investment is booming. Consumers continue to spend. Jobs are outperforming. One of the big themes emerging is a smaller role for the federal government, and a much larger role for private business investment. You could say: entrepreneurs 10, federal bureaucrats 0. Not everything in the world is a function of tariffs, even though the liberal media would have you believe that.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
Stock markets are cheering. Bears are running for cover. We‚Äôve just completed the best nine days in the entire history of the S&P 500 index ‚ÄĒ which is now up 10 percent. The S&P is now higher than it was on the April 2 ‚ÄúLiberation Day.‚ÄĚThe market is cheering the likelihood of significant trade deals. The market is cheering the GDP report this week, where the underlying growth was really plus 3 percent.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
President Trump just put the heavy wood to Iran. And, in so doing, just slammed Communist China, as well. As far as I’m concerned, Mr. Trump is right, on both counts. Just a couple of hours ago on Truth Social, the president announced:“All purchases of Iranian Oil, or Petrochemical products, must stop, NOW! Any Country or person who buys ANY AMOUNT of OIL or PETROCHEMICALS from Iran will be subject to, immediately, Secondary Sanctions.
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2 weeks ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
The liberal press and their pals on Wall Street are talking about recession — because the first quarter GDP was scored with a slight decline of three-tenths of 1 percent. And those afflicted with the disease of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” are now talking about recession in the second quarter. Yet if you look under the hood of the GDP report, and carefully parse through the numbers, what you actually come up with is a rather strong economy, that’s growing at something like 3 percent. That’s right.
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2 weeks ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
After President Trump’s first 100 days, what stands out to me is his straightforward trademark phrase — “promises made, promises kept.”He was elected on November 5 to transform the country in a completely different direction from the failed presidency of Joe Biden. And that is precisely what Mr. Trump has done. He is a disruptor. He is a change agent. He is fighting the entrenched elites and their institutions. He’s not afraid to use shock and awe. He is also a master dealmaker.
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2 weeks ago | 
nysun.com | Lawrence Kudlow
The liberal press is at it. Again. They’re doing everything they can to phony up their polls in order to show that President Trump’s first 100 days are a failure. Well, it’s not true. These are fake polls. I spoke to ace pollster John McLaughlin over the weekend, and he told me that in the latest New York Times poll, only 37 percent of respondents are Trump 2024 voters. But Mr. Trump received 50 percent of the vote. So, what happened to the other 13 percent? It’s a fake poll.
