{"id":673776,"date":"2026-05-30T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:17:11","slug":"live-with-it-fox-business-host-larry-kudlow-has-repeatedly-dismissed-high-prices-weighing-on-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673776\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLive with it\u201d: Fox Business host Larry Kudlow has repeatedly dismissed high prices weighing on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">As the war dragged into its third month, Kudlow continued to downplay rising gas prices and growing inflation. On his May 13 show, Kudlow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/media\/4040883\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, \u201cI don&#8217;t care about a couple of months of $4 gasoline. Honestly, I don&#8217;t care if the inflation rate goes to 5%. This is the defense of freedom and civilization and Western values, Judeo-Christian values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kudlow, who served as director of the National Economic Council during Trump\u2019s first term,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/media\/4040882\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a> that \u201ceven if the war comes to a conclusion, it\u2019s going to take a while\u201d for costs to come down. But \u201cit\u2019s a small price to pay \u2014 a couple months of higher gasoline prices, etc. \u2014 for wiping out the scourge of the Earth,\u201d he explained, referring to Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kudlow continued to insist \u201cit\u2019s a small price to pay. I don\u2019t give a damn.\u201d He similarly dismissed \u201ca lot of moaning and groaning and hand-wringing and so forth\u201d about inflation, adding, \u201cI don&#8217;t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/12\/inflation-breakdown-for-april-2026-cpi-chart.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April CPI report<\/a> showed inflation rose to its highest point in nearly three years, Kudlow instead pointed to successes in the stock market. \u201cI think the United States\u2019 economy is strong,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/media\/4040889\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cI don&#8217;t care \u2014 we have a couple bad months of inflation, it means nothing. It means absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe may get two or three more bad months, OK?\u201d he continued. \u201cBut when the war is over and they are destroyed, those prices are going to come down. Everybody knows that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the war dragged into its third month, Kudlow continued to downplay rising gas prices and growing inflation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-673776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}