Steve Forbes Joins Larry Kudlow in Endorsing Elon Musk for Fed Chair: ‘He Understands What it Takes to Get Things Done’

Fox Business Network’s Larry Kudlow recruited Steve Forbes on Thursday to join him in endorsing Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk as a future Federal Reserve chairman.

Referencing Musk’s opposition to President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, as well as social-media conflicts with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kudlow noted in an evening interview with Forbes, “He’s even opposed to the electric vehicle subsidies. He’s opposed to the electric vehicle gas station subsidies. And he was attacked by Elizabeth Warren. Now to me, you’re against the bill, you’re against the subsidies, and Elizabeth Warren hates you — don’t you have the grounds to be Fed chairman?”

“I’d vote for his confirmation,” Forbes responded, adding:

Because he understands the real world. He understands what it takes to get things done. These people don’t. They think you turn on a switch, and voila, it happens. Like when we’re kids, we’re told milk doesn’t just come to the markets. It’s got to come from the guy that pasteurizes, that sort of thing, a lot of supply chain — they don’t understand that. He could give them a few lessons on that, especially inside the Fed.

Forbes, the editor in chief of the eponymous Forbes magazine, who ran for president in 1996 and 2000, is the second person to endorse Musk for the position since Kudlow started campaigning for him a day earlier.

“He would be an activist,” Kudlow said in a Wednesday segment with Fox News’ Sandra Smith. “He wouldn’t pony around in the swamp of Washington, ‘Oh me oh me oh my oh my,’ with all these bureaucrats and 10,000 economists. I doubt if Elon Musk has ever talked to an economist, which makes him uniquely qualified to run the Federal Reserve. I had dealings with him in the White House and I was totally impressed, and on top of all that, he’s saying to the government — to the president — ‘I don’t want electric car subsidies, I don’t want electric gas station subsidies.'”

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