isn't the cut for public and it's a federal reserve for borrowing for the banks and they're basically getting a raise for last three weeks of the quarter and i think the banks are going to perform very well and gol goldman sachs lastk and they never miss. liz: yeah, goldman city and bank of america are going to report and todd, it's great to see you. thank you very much. todd, bubba, horowitz. here is the closing bell and we have paired most of the losses on the dow jones industrials and the dow was down 203 points and mow down 51 points. still no record for either the dow or the s&p. we're seeing red on the screen for the nasdaq and thank you for tuning in always. larry: i'm larry kudlow and hurricane milton strapped on the

coast and last season going to bring strong winds and horrible rainfall and flooding and deadly destruction and going straight to our onyewu i can trimble and, yay i can, what of this can i have cult story? reporter: larry, the white house is read i can to deal with the aftermath of the hurricane and dealing with the aftermath of the last one, hurricane helene and president biden spoke saying that fema is ready to take care of the immediate needs of the people of florida and heard from homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and the boss of fema and reiterated both gentlemen in the press briefing and president biden spoke saying they're battling what they consider to be misinformation about fema's response. take a listen to president biden.

>> lives are on the line and people in desperate situations and have the decency to tell them the truth and let me say this. all the people impacted by hurricane helene and hurricane milton, despite that misinformation and lies, the truth is we're providing resources needed to rescue, recover and rebuild. reporter: that's president biden is we know he spoke with not only florida governor ron kansas today but also several members of congress who have been criticizing fema's response and nonetheless fema says it has all sorts of resources at the disposal of governor desantis desantis, including millions and millions of meals and liters of water as well as crews that are available to florida kemp spite the fact that fema is facing major staffing challenges and governor described his call with the president today.

>> i appreciate being able to collaborate across the local state and federal governments and working together to put the people first. i want the private sector is getting involved too and like star link sent around 10,000 units to the areas that were impacted by hurricane helene, spacex, which is in charge of star link, is doing the same with this storm. after the storm, more than 3 million people were without cell signal. at this hour, we think there's still several million people

possibly more than 3 million people are customers i should say without power to their homes and businesses so it'll be a long road ahead and we're going to need private sector and government involvement. larry. lauren:. it's good people working across the political lines and mr. desantis is a very, very good governor and she's shining in this emergency frankly. brady, thank you ever so much. folks, we'll have more on this with florida congressman greg steube and mike waltz in the show. first up, the fed is playing politics and that's the subject of the riff. just how political was the fed decision to launch their 50 basis point jumbo sized rate reduction that back in mid september. first came the outside jobs

report and manner that is principle of government linked jobs and still it was a big number. then cpi showing very sticky inflation and over the path 12 months top line cpi up # .4% and that's 0% higher than the fed's #% target. core inflation, 3.3% year on year and 65% above the fed's #% target. while the kamala harris campaign blasted jd vance for suggesting a dozen eggs cost $4 now, they're really only $3.0 back in august, it's more that be double from the trump years.

up 39.6% and average price of eggs is mow $3.82 right now. mr. carney calls this hill billy eglegy. play on words. why the peds launch uber rate cut a little over six weeks before the election. it was unheard of on the presidential cycle and fed being political no matter what side of the aisle you're on. objective look at miles per hours shows the fed was being political. denying the value bank would play politics was another clear example that the fed was indeed playing politics.

>> the fed stated reason for the me gather rate cut was -- mega rate cut was a collapse in mark evansville market and the inflation rate would hit their target and inflation is stickier and the fed is not hitting its 2% target and labor market holding well and mr. powell in all his wisdom done what the fed is not supposed to do. interfering with the election. or trying to give the kamala economy some last minute juice.

the aforementioned poet john carney, by the way he's the finance and economic senator of bright barton news and coauthor of the bright bart business and just every day it's must reading. john. you have been saying from day one, i've been joining you and the numbers don't prove him out and we probably didn't need any changes in the fed funds rate and some people are now saying there's going to be fed funds rate and at my point before we get to the details of the economy, among tear politics and he's dragged the fed to a new low. i think it's going to take awhile for the fed to buy back the credibility that jay powell lost for them.

>> absolutely. he blew their credibility by mott waiting until after the election. they have a meeting after the election and could have waited till november and cut then. nothing would tell you to cut in september or can't wait till move. it's craziness and a political move tobin with and i said they shouldn't coit at the time and definitely shouldn't do it and now we have the data backing this up and that's another reason to wait. they saw two months of soft kay tafanely that the jobs market and said, that's it, we're going to cut. if they had waited, they would have seen the report on the jobs that just came out. they would have seen the cpi must remember, and hay could have said, whoa, 50 is way too big. maybe let's do 25 or let's wait till december to cut. what's the rush if mott for politics? larry: let my play tape. donald trump had things to say about cpi report of the ped.

>> could believe what was predicted with much of the gain from food prices going up and rent and housing cost going up and going for the federal government brought the interest rates down a little too quickly and too big of a cut and everyone knows that was a political maneuver they tried to do before the election and it's a political decision and inflation started to rise. larry: he's spot on and just shows you by the way. i was with him and interviewed him on friday and the friday show and it just shows that how well informed he is and what he said it could have been said by the wall street economy.

>> mos the miles per hours like the back of his hand and knows when he's smell ago rat also. >> he mos what drove up inpolice station and a big kemp tail a lot contested have. food inpolice station was very high. car inpolice station was very high. these are things that are going to really hurt kamala harris and people are very upset and economy is the number one issue and inflation is the number one issue inside of the economy and they know that harris is the incumbent candidate and tries to say she's the change agent, we know that's not true. when they're going to the grocery store and finding that the price of eggs is 10% higher just in the last month as you said in the riff, that is going to shock people it's more than double. around $1.50 for a dozen eggs when donald trump was president. larry: let me ask you a question, it's hypothetical. you're running the central bank and your inflation target has bye bye bye breeched for three

years and it's #% is the target. that's been the target for all the big time industrial central banks and about 0 years, 5 years and it's been the target. for 40 years and past three years you're well over target. what harm would it possibly do a if you waited or even bs supposed undershoot, suppose you let the actual inpolice station rate drop to 1.5 or 1. getting 300 million going down and no 2% target and they're waiting for eggs and it's

decline and nothing. who's helping them. mow the fed may be talking to, i don't know, each other, wall street, or politicians running for president. who's helping the middle class? who's helping the lower income people who get hurt the most by inflation tax. under jay powell's own theory he started during the trump administration, they should be undershooting. >> average 2% over time and under 2%. we can go a little over. we need to undershoot inflation medical record to return to trend and you're absolutely right on that and there's no business actually targeting to hit #% and they should be targeting below #% in order to bring the long term trend back to where people expected it to go. on top of all that, mortgage rates. larry: yeah, if you want to buy a new home, mortgage rates are going back up.

>> that's right. they fell from about 7 to 6 and using round miles per hours and about 650 or 660 so that's not helping anybody in the middle class or lower class. >> look at 10 year treasury and just going there. 10 year treasury heading to 3.5% or so and back over 4%. and inflation, you mo, it's proving to be very sticky and something weave talked about and it doesn't just evaporate and that's where the management of the fed and particularly jay powell and powell and a couple of lieutenants run that place. they've got whatever, 600 economists and phd and the vice chairman mott running at board of governors and he country run it and he runs it and the decision maker with a couple of senior economists and they could have waited and no reason they couldn't have waited but put it to you this way, there's no reason why they couldn't understand what it's like for

middle class and lower income people who suffered through 20% plus price increases across the board or mortgage rates or home prices because of what the federal reserve has done. on top of that, deficits, federal budget deficits are running $2 trillion a year as far as the eye can see, we're not far from porn climate and high inpolice station and $2 trillion a year and by themselves are absolutely inconsistent with low inflation and the spending number of uncle same and the spending number was 11% this year. 11% spending and you're running deficits of $# trillion, which is what 6 or 7% of gkp and you're still above inflation target. >> the money supply at highest it's been for a few years now

and it's been rising ever since april so just throw that into it. the reason why the market is not continuing on the path and putting it system in a really tricky position and no matter what happens in november, if they suddenly turn around and say, uh oh, we can't cut anymore or oh no, we might have to raise rates. that's going to going to be moving. 2026. >> powell around for a couple more years. larry: if the federal reserve were to have to turn around because of sticky inflation, sounds like a song or broadway somehow. p they have to turn around and raise rates, jay powell should resign.

he should resign. the next three or four maybe just as bad, but he should have to resign. actually, mickey bowman voting against all this would be the chairman and john carney and coming up, hurricane milton struck florida's coast last night and left behind deadly destruction wherever you look. we've got florida congressman greg stew steube and mike waltz talking to us and 4:00 p.m. every day here on fabulous fox business and can't get here at 4:00, text your favorite 9-year-old and she will show you how to dvr the show and you'll never miss a thing except inflation. i'm kudlow, we'll be right backn ♪ mmended you. so, my best friend sophie says you've been a huge help. at ameriprise financial, more than 9 out of 10 of our clients are likely to recommend us. our neighbors, the garcía's, love working with you.

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larry: hurricane milton struck the florida coast last night and lots of canaling and people have lost their lives and millions are still without power and joining us now to talk a bit more about it, florida congressman greg steube and mike waltz, two good friends of ours. mott sure where greg is for that

matter, but how is it going and as far as recovery, i hope it is going smoothly and a good job and governor desantis is doing that and itch i wanted to ask you if you're number one and going for desantis and expectations and how is fema doing in this? >> we're still getting beat up and governor desantis is building on years of governor rick scott and back to jeb bush that sustained four hurricanes just in a period of two months.

this is years of investment and strong leadership and assets preposition and so frankly we need the money that the federal government can provide to reimburse our locals from fema but florida has this country-specific. we have hundreds of thousands of magsal guards, men and women and sheriffs and state and police and deputies all read i can to go and hit hard and we'll be working quickly and even florida power and light has 17 employees and getting them back online and one thing to watch is fuel. 50% of florida's fuel comes to the port of tampa. that will need to recover quickly and fortunately cape canaveral, spacex guys are saying that it did not sustain significant damage so we can keep that star link up and keep our magsal security launches

going. the governor organized and expedited as many utility people as possible both from florida and outside of florida to try and deal with the kef stating power outages and nothing can be worse i mean, losing one's life could be worse and power outages crippling in emergencies like this and also that governor desantis has help to organize the police. he's gotten involved in making sure police placement and cooperation so that everybody is on the same page to the extent possible.

kamala harris and going for them and out of these emergencies, greg, sometimes there can be bright spots and just seems to me likest is a bright spot. what do you think? this morning, 75 to 85% of my contribute without power and i came over with my contribute and going with sarasota and we experience bard into the eye and back ward into the eye and 100 miles an hour winds going north and south after the eye passed us and taking us longer to recover and we have a lot of downed trees and i'm on generator power going to communicate with you right now

and a lot of people don't have cell service and going to stay with power and they are -- the state did ambrette job of staging those resources going to be ready to come as soon as possible and they do it in the grids and i know they're working as hard as they can as fast as they can to get us back up on power. larry: has fema done what fema should do? >> look, larry, the difference with north carolina is things were prepositioned and pre-reequipsed and state and local leadership were really on top of their game. i contested think that was the case.

every single one of emergency counties have operation centers from bridge inspectors, transportation experts, rail experts, port experts, hospital administrators so this is really about leadership at a local level telling the feds what you need. larry: i suspect florida is unsafe. that's what it sounds like and that as you say will make all the difference many the world.

>> i have zero connect and i have the my staff has zero connectivity and i'm working on a generator working on wifi. thankfully we have ether net and i can text -- ether net and text via iphone and others and come down and help us and he's helped the folks in north carolina and usually they have co coms up and at&t and verizon quickly and bring in the portable generators and portable towers and real quick to add under what waltz said i have charlotte county still owed money today from fina reimbursement and hurricane ian two years ago. we have an administration seeming to be more concentrated

on illegal immigrant housing than they are american citizens that need help. larry: the other thing is, greg, just on that point, we have learn maryland the last week or two or three that the fcc, federal communications commission, actually rescinded moneys that were going to go to elon musk's spacex and star link system. hay cost 300 each and work real fast and i can't imagine why the fcc or homeland security or anybody at pima would want to stop it. maybe just because it's el paso 'em. that sounds affordabilitiy to me but that's what we're hearing.

>> greg is right. lag time is years and years and they're pushing cash and budgets right out the door on day one to clean up debris and to take care of all the overtime of our first responders and make sure our hospitals are still running and then it takes five or six yearss and the more the merrier and we deeply appreciate him. larry: i bet you will. thank you, gentlemen. please be safe, good luck on the recovery efforts and appreciate it much. greg steube and mike wait a

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>> >> i will deliver lower taxes, lower regulation, low energy cost, low inpolice station and interest rates to the greatest economy in the history of the world, which he with four years ago. we want to bring wealth back to our country. i have kay filled with opportunity and hope. larry: we're joined by texas congressman and good friend wesley hunt. hank for coming back on. always appreciate your time. mow, trump has, i think, at this stage he's coming down the home

stretch and he's running hard, i think he's really bot himself a comfortable message. he's at ease with it and pinpointing tax cuts and limpet to that in just a moment. party platforms and he's getting that done, wesley. know what else, i think the momentum is shifting in his direction because he's getting that done. what do you think about that? is that too simplistic? >> no, he's in tune with what the american people want and we're hurting every kay and getting crushed by taxes and president trump delivered the greatest economy i've seen in my lifetime and wants the opportunity to deliver that again. i'll have the honor of being with him in nevada. you're talking about a state that's so heavily dependent on the service industry. when i had d dinner with my famy

last might, he said can you tell president trump thank you for the no tax on tips he was promising. he wants for every single american to have more money in their pocket so hay can decide what they want to do with it and reinvest that money into the economy. we're see ago shift many polling right now because president trump is laser focused on what matters most to the american people. it's not kei. it's not race, it's not mandates, it's not ev man indicates. it is the economy. people are getting crushed at the grocery store and at the pumps and president trump wants to fix that . the message you're going to see in the stretch of next 23, 24 days a laser focused president trump on the economy because that's what he can clever for the american people on day one, larry. larry: inpolice station is very sticky and over the past three

and a half years+ as you well know, prices are up 20% and many, many prices, electricity, groceries and so forth, they're bigger than 0%. there's ha and that's an issue. i think -- i was with him friday and interviewed him for this show, and his grasp of kemp tail and emba grasp of hinges and lot mechanic and produced here and you've got 15 persian and at a 15% tax wait, wesley, you know what, profits go up, that allows companies to hire more people and allows companies to pay higher wages, which was the story. it was the wage earner and the

lower income wage earner by the way that had the biggest percentage game co-you think the message could get out. that's a huge thing and job creator and wage creator. >> democrats will make you belief the corporations will all of a sudden go out and buy a bunch of lamborghinis and corporations run and first thing they do is reinvest that money back into their company and back into the future of the companies. they reinvest back into hair employees 401(k)s go up and able to hire more people and able to expand their business. ben, a lower tax rate means that any business in this country regardless of the feel has a opportunity to prosper. i'm country-specific here many houston in the energy corridor. emergency is the most important

industry in my opinion especially given what's happening all over the world. they become cleaner and better and that's what you get when you have tax cuts and what you'll see with the economy and in the future. you'll see a boost in the economy when president trump comes back and ben, people have taken the tax cuts and reinvest in goods that they want to buy, which is also going to stimulate the economy. it's just that simple. larry: the circle includes 100% appreciation and helps you buy machinery and equipment and great for productivity and in return great for higher real wages and how about the others mow and you mention the tax pree tips and he's going to cut the tax on social security

beneficiaries and that's important. how co-you feel about those tips cutting on taxes and corporate tax and is there muff time to explain that? gomb>> again, laser focused on x cuts and regular people paycheck to paycheck and allowing them more money in their pocket to recover from the past four years and then get back ahead.

democrats think by axing the rich or corporations we'll fix this. that's not how it works. a few minutes ago the middle class from president trump was in office and couldn't be more true. the left wants to tell you that only the rich got the tax cuts and men bitted the most. no, every single american black, white, we all benefited and family of five in my house, i want to see it too and i do not want to see the american people suffer and all the god given resources and great people and great, great minds and great industries and that exists right here in this country. larry: i was just thinking and all this left wing stuff and we're bonn ma tax rich people and tax corporations and that's

sold. all that left wing pack is so old and people heard that for so long and i don't think anybody really believes it anywhere. i've bot to get it out and thank you for coming back on. >> thank you, larry. larry: charlie hurt, i contested like to talk polls and horse race stuff but i just think the tide is turning and i'm looking at a memo, elmore trump, tony, john mcblock cline, you mo them well and they're both dear friends. of the seven swing states and president trump is ahead in every single swing sate. every single one.

>> yeah, but the change many tactics by the harris campaign and nee mow trying to put her out to do interviews, which they have apseudo-yously avoided and now we know why it's a disaster

and her campaign has to clean everything up. what are they doing and when a campaign is smelling the way they smell, i just smell sort of death on them. heir getting death and trying stuff and it's not working. larry: one of the reasons for trumps in the polls is exactly what you describe and all these little one-on-one or having beer with goof balls with late night

one of these going for a sense of impending doom hangs heavily over the campaign in its final week with a trump return mow peeling inevitable. what co-you think, alex? gooey, they want to get cocky and check out and congress is on a mice edge and i think that a lot of swing contributes are going to control first of all winning the popular vote would be mice if trump won that and there's a lot of media i would say strategizing to try and motivate certain groups of people and get other people to go sit on the sideline and tram is the opposite approach and going for mai and he's acting supremely confident and forward thinking garnering a lot of positive media attention going for kamala harris doing that

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larry: gynoing us is the matt run million pennsylvania and lots of people hitting jobs on you and down one point against incumbent tammy baldwin and tell us your strategy. >> issues, economy and the boarder and housing crisis and housing unaffordability and healthcare system and obama care made a mess and cost continuing to rise.

we have to save this country, larry. you and i both mo that and four more years of this stuff and we won't even recognize our country and they're bankrupting our country and we need good sound economic policies and get our debt in line and deregulation and welfare reform and there's a lot we need to get done from a business standpoint and look, i appreciate everybody's help going to erichovde.com and this race can be won and take back control of the senate and get president trump in here and wisconsin is the battleground state. larry: i contested think, i contested hi someone in successful business should be a target. i mean, incumbent is a pure biden harris voting record and stick to your gun, sir. sick to your guns. it'll be okay.

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larry. i just want o say god bless people fighting for their lives country-specific in florida and hurricane milton. very tough hall and everybody mo it is, and i hope they can stay safe and get the power running again and work together and god bless all of them. and liz macdonald covering that some more too i reckon. liz: yeah, your buddy steve forbes is next to me