• 23 Jun 2009 at 12:03 PM

Should Larry Summers Take Over For Ben Bernanke?

By Bess Levin

Picture 1573.pngLarry Kudlow, as you may have noticed, is for some reason obsessed with Larry Summers taking over for Ben Bernanke. Is this because LK just loves the idea of having a “Chairman Larry”? Did Summers make Kuds a promise back in their Studio 54 days that if he ever got the job, he’d commission the printing of a stack of special edition hundos with Kudlow’s face on them* through which the two would do seemingly endless lines off the president’s desk? It’s unclear. But does buddy boy have a point? And if not, why not?
*Early in Bernanke’s tenure L-Kud approached him about this but was brutally rebuffed. Kuds knew better than to ask Greenspan, who had a hard and fast policy of only printing special edition bills bearing the mugs of his favorite Hill bitches.

Comments (21)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    it’s scenario b.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    Ed McMahon should take over for BB.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    You know anything about running an independent quasi government entity? Wanna help me control the currency and reserve system here? No? I could use a little help. I need a little assistance. I never took a economics class, and I need a little help. Ok, I’m just coming flat out and saying ‘help me’. Anybody want to help a semi-retarded individual run the Fed? 25, 30 dollars. 30 dollars to run the Fed. 35 dollars to run the Fed right now. I’ll give you 10 dollars for a verbal response. 10 dollars. Anybody want to make 10 dollars and respond verbally? No?

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    LK respects Arthur Laffer’s opinion. Nuff said.

  5. 5
    Posted by Bess Levin | June 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    @3 I love you.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    Cage match to decide who gets it. My money’s on the Beard.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM

    #3 just call AAA

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM

    anyone else notice how Larry Summers resembles Larry Flint?

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    Kudlow: I am not obsessed with asses.
    Summers: Ok, assy. And what is all that shit all over your shirt? You been scrounging around, looking for ass?

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM

    @3 ftw

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    Considering LK had a coke problem, this is in poor taste.

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    I would LOVE a stack of hundos with Larry’s face on them.

  13. 13
    Posted by Anal_yst | June 23, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    @11
    FAIL.

  14. 14
    Posted by EvilBuzzard | June 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    Who here thinks Summers would actually do a worse job than Double-B?

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    Here, here, EvilBuzz.
    -TGFHouston
    P.S. In fact, ANYONE currently involved in the FedSystem would do a worse job than BB.
    Hey, let’s get Karl Denninger on the potential list of FedSystem Chairman.
    http://market-ticker.denninger.net/

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    Larry converted to Catholicism from Judaism a number of years ago so he could actually GO to hell. Delighted to be rid of him.
    The Jewish Diaspora

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 4:22 PM

    @16
    But his dentist converted to Judaism for the jokes, so Larry became an anti-dentite

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 4:46 PM

    LK was probably tons more fun when he was on the blow…media must be the only industry in which having “Rehab” on your resume is considered a credential

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 7:59 PM

    If that crackhead supports him, it’s one more reason he shouldn’t be allowed within a mile of the Fed’s headquarters.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 8:20 PM

    except that Treasury prints the money and not the Fed.
    http://www.moneyfactory.gov/
    Tour is actually interesting.

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | June 23, 2009 at 8:25 PM

    @20 christ, it was a joke, 1 and 2 we’re not talking about the body that literally prints the money.

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