[lbo-talk] Kudlow grateful for Japanese death toll

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Mar 13 08:20:38 PDT 2011


He spoke like a true capitalist, who realizes that natural disasters are generally good for business (all those contracts for cleanup and rebuilding etc.)

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On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:48:57 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
> What an odious human:
>
>
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/03/larry-kudlow-devalues-huma n-life-with-japan-earthquake-freudian-slip.html
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> In these tough economic times, isn’t it nice to know that calamitous
> natural disasters needn't have an adverse affect on your investment
> portfolio? After the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan failed to
> induce a market nosedive, CNBC’s Larry Kudlow expressed his relief
> in terms that seemed to appall even his fellow cheerleaders for
> capitalism: “The human toll here,” he declared, “looks to be much
> worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.” (Skip
> ahead to 0:38 on the video after the jump.)
>
>
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