Larry Kudlow is the host of CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and The Larry Kudlow Show on WABC Radio. He has an estimated net worth of $80 million and an annual salary of $1 million. Born Lawrence Alan Kudlow on August 20, 1947 in New Jersey, he was raised in a Jewish family. He attended private schools Elizabeth Morrow School and Dwight-Englewood School. In 1969, he graduated with a degree in history from the University of Rochester.

Kudlow is an American conservative economist, television personality, and newspaper columnist. He began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 1970, he worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Joseph Duffey together with Bill Clinton, John Podesta, and Michael Medved. In 1971, he attended Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and studied politics and economics.

Larry Kudlow was rehired by Bear Stearns in 1987 to be its chief economist and senior managing director. However, he was fired in 1994 after he was found out to have been abusing cocaine, which was the reason he once skipped an important client presentation. He was also an the economic counsel to A.B. Laffer & Associates as well as a member of the board of directors of Empower America. He is also the consulting chief economist for American Skandia Life Assurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Prudential Financial.

As an author, he has written and published American Abundance: The New Economic & Moral Prosperity and Tide: Why Tax Cuts Are the Key to Prosperity and Freedom. He also made comments on Bullish On Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger which was written by Stephen Moore.