Louis Rukeyser TOPICS: Economics Business Journalism FEE CATEGORY:* 50.0k to 75.0k Profile Request This Speaker

Louis Rukeyser: Profile

Louis Rukeyser is America's most popular economic commentator--and much more: he's the best-loved and most-respected advisor on the entire political-economic-financial scene. His exciting new TV program, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street is an unprecedented bridging of cable and public television--and follows directly in the tradition of Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser, the smash-hit PBS program he hosted for 32 years, drawing millions more viewers every week than any other financial program in history.

His two monthly newsletters have by far the biggest circulation in their field. The New York Times calls him "legendary," the San Francisco Examiner says he has consistently been "one of the most accurate economic forecasters in the country," and the Washington Post gives him the ultimate accolade: "everyone's favorite economic commentator."

Rukeyser brings to his role as America's top financial expert more than four decades of globe-ranging experience as an award-winning television, radio and newspaper correspondent. His remarkable career has straddled three distinct areas of the news--political analysis, foreign correspondence and economic interpretation--and he has won unusual honors in all three.

Rukeyser's ability to clarify passing events in a lively and insightful fashion, calling on all these areas of expertise, has made him an internationally celebrated broadcaster, lecturer, editor and author.

Rukeyser has written best-selling books on both economics and investing. His classic, What's Ahead for the Economy: The Challenge and the Chance, quickly became a top nationwide best-seller and was a selection of the Literary Guild.

Before he ended it in 1993 to devote more time to his newsletters, his widely respected and influential syndicated column of economic commentary, distributed weekly by Tribune Media Services, appeared in hundreds of newspapers coast to coast for 17 years. And he has for decades been one of the world's most eagerly sought-after headline speakers, honored by Toastmasters International as one of the five Outstanding Speakers of 1998 and named by California's prestigious Celebrity Forum as "The Greatest Speaker of Them All."

His innumerable awards over the years for his television programs include the G. M. Loeb Award, the most prestigious in financial journalism; it was the first Loeb Award ever given to a broadcaster. He has received nine honorary doctorates for his trailblazing work as the nation's No. 1 economic educator.

But not all Louis Rukeyser's awards have been on the serious side: The Fashion Foundation of America has named him both the best-dressed man in finance and the most sartorially elegant host in America. And Playboy magazine, acclaiming him in its own best-dressed list, said he was a "rakish raconteur" and a "personal-style knockout."

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