Throw-Up Thurs.: The Kudlow Story

"Only The Best Minds", Part Whatever The Hell

 Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Larry Kudlow may have been more wrong about the economy than anyone alive  —  It was the eve of the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression.  Many on Wall Street worried that a recession loomed and that the housing bubble was bursting.  —  And then there was Larry Kudlow …

Discussion:

Hart Williams / The Moderate Voice:   Larry Kudlow's Secret Life Revealed

Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Larry Kudlow: 5 things to know about the bar mitzvah boy turned pro-Israel Catholic

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:   Forget All the Cocaine, Trump's New Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow is One of TV's Worst Financial Pundits

Edward Helmore / The Guardian:   'Trump's agenda is anti-growth': Trump's new economic adviser in his own words

Dean Baker / Common Dreams:   In Defense of Larry Kudlow (Sort of)

Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:   Larry Kudlow is usually wrong

David Harsanyi / The Federalist:   Larry Kudlow Is A Big Upgrade For The White House

Meteor Blades / Daily Kos:   Abbreviated pundit round-up: Torturer at CIA; no tears for Tillerson, no cheers for Pompeo

Ezra Klein / Vox:   Larry Kudlow solves what Trump believes is his real problem

Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:   Trump's new economic adviser is really bad at economics. Here are the receipts.

Molly Osberg / Splinter:   Trump Picks a Cable News Scumbag to Be His Chief Economic Adviser

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:   MEGAN MCARDLE: What Larry Kudlow's Appointment Means:

Tom Levenson / Balloon Juice:   We Can Always Use Some Bitter, Cynical, Gallows Humor, So Here's A Kudlow Post

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Trump's New Economic Adviser Lawrence Kudlow Has Been Wrong About Everything for Decades

CNBC:   Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as Trump's top economic advisor

Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   The Election of Donald Trump Was A Populist Blow Against Neoliberalism

We are through the looking glass (darkly) circling the drain & about to enter the abyss. And shouldn't Trump be calling for Kudlow's execution as a drug dealer, user, whatever?