Veteran financial guru Larry Kudlow, who served as the Donald Trump campaign's senior economic adviser, tells Newsmax TV he's ready to serve in the future cabinet of the presidential-elect if called upon.
"When a president calls, that's pretty powerful stuff and somebody like myself who's been there — if the president asks, I'm sure I will have a positive response," Kudlow said Wednesday to Steve Malzberg on "America Talks Live."
"Donald Trump has a very strong economic growth message which is going to be great for the economy and for profits and for businesses large and small."
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Kudlow, a Newsmax finance insider and CNBC senior contributor, said the billionaire real-estate tycoon, who beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Tuesday, was successful because he understands the dissatisfaction of "ordinary middle-class folk."
"He understood that they were angry and that the establishment in Washington and elsewhere was not delivering. He understood that they wanted change and he understood that they wanted to drain the swamp, get rid of the corruption, stop the corporate cronyism," Kudlow said.
"He understood that instinctively and he knew that people were not willing to give up the American dream … I think it was effective and I think he hit it exactly right. He just understood the American people in a way that no other political figure has understood it."
Kudlow — host of "The Larry Kudlow Show" and author of "JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity," written with Brian Domitrovic and published by Portfolio — said Trump's economic message temporarily got lost causing an hours-long market collapse as election results were tallied.
"Don't ask me why but it did. It was kind of like Brexit. The markets collapsed and then they started coming back very strong when they realized that that was a good idea," Kudlow said.
"With Mr. Trump you're going to have across the board tax cuts, you're going to end Obamacare, which is a prosperity killer and a healthcare killer, you're going to take the handcuffs off of energy, you're going to wall back all these regulations and you're going to stop the government from taking over the economy. That's a powerful message."
Kudlow said he believes the global stock markets are ripe for investment.
"I would be buying all these markets right now. I'm not a trader, Lord knows, but I would be buying it because again, fundamentally, Trump has a very strong pro-growth message and the world needs growth," he said.
"If the United States goes the wrong way, as I think it has in recent years, the rest of the world tends to follow. But if the U.S. goes the right way, the incentive way, the tax cut way, then the world will follow ...
"With things like trade disputes and the latest arguments, I think those can be worked out in a very cooperative and positive manner."
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