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Larry Kudlow: Director of the White House National Economic Council

June 8, 2020 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

President Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Larry Kudlow participate in the “Our Pledge to America’s Workers” event Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018 (Photo Courtesy of Haley Maddrey)

Your Survival Guy is a big fan of Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council. This week, the WSJ’s Andy Kessler writes:

“In the grip of the world-wide recession, we must all stick to anti-inflationary, high-productivity policies that adapt new technology, retrain workers, and increase efficiency.” Who said that? Donald Trump? Angela Merkel? Emmanuel Macron? Nope, that was Ronald Reagan in May 1983, speaking on the eve of the Williamsburg Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations.

Now, the off-again, on-again Group of Seven meeting scheduled for June is off until September at the earliest. Too bad. It’s needed more than ever. I spoke with Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council and the so-called Sherpa of the meeting’s agenda, and asked what his pitch will be. “It’s the Reagan playbook,” he says. “In some sense, it’s very easy. The same principles apply. You want to reduce tax rates, generate incentives, reignite the animal spirits, and deregulate to remove business obstacles.”

Here’s my favorite part:

“On trade,” Mr. Kudlow goes on, “Potus’s vision has always been to go to zero tariffs. His favorite word on this has been ‘reciprocity.’ If Europe has a 10% tariff on cars, which they do, and we have 2.5%, they should come down to 2.5%—or zero. The playbook is going to be very similar to Reagan’s.”

As in 1983, Mr. Kudlow says, “the message is the same: growth, taxes, deregulation, trade.” He’s right, but will it resonate? “Macron cut the corporate tax in France, unfortunately phased in. Germany has a pretty deregulated labor market. Britain has relatively low tax and capital-gains rates. But there’s no Reagan figure, no Reagan model for the EU. There never was.”

Who gets it? “BoJo,” he says, the U.K.’s Boris Johnson. “I have said to him, ‘I’m all for Brexit. It’s Magna Carta 2.0. You can liberate Britain, but you have to make Britain a great investment haven, like Singapore or Hong Kong before the Chinese took over, and you’ve got to cut your tax rates as much as possible to attract capital.’ ” It hasn’t happened yet, I point out. “So buy America,” Mr. Kudlow quickly adds.

But we can’t do it ourselves, I say. He disagrees: “I think we can do it ourselves. I think we always have done it ourselves. The U.S. drives the world economy; it doesn’t drive us. In the Reagan years it was the same. Everyone said the rest of the world would drag us down. Not true. That’s why we run trade deficits, which the president doesn’t like, but it just means we’re growing faster than they’re growing. We’re importing capital.” I appreciate the eat-my-dust mentality, but we’re all better off if the rest of the world—the G-7 and beyond—participates.

“The best scenario,” Mr. Kudlow explains, “would be that the U.S. and the U.K. maintain the Reagan playbook: lower tax rates, lower regulation, steady currencies, supply-side incentives for future growth, including a free-trade deal.”

“If you look out over the next several years,” he continues, “that’s when we need incentives, that’s when we need the Reagan playbook. You signal to investors and builders and technology and entrepreneurs that Trump will stay on the supply side.”

The stock market is up 46% off its coronavirus bottom and down only 5% for the year, confounding investors and CNBC anchors alike. It’s obvious the market is assuming a robust recovery driven by synchronized global growth, but that doesn’t happen magically. I think the world needs the Reagan playbook again, instead of crony industrial policy or boondoggle infrastructure spending, else those market gains evaporate.

Can Mr. Kudlow transfer the 1983 Williamsburg Summit Reagan playbook to the expanded roster of countries meeting in September? “There’s only one guy at both meetings,” he says: “Me.” Hope for similar results.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com
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