Louis Rukeyser: Optimistic, Witty, Defender of Free Markets; RIP
Louis Rukeyser. Source of image: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/Apr-06-Sat-2002/business/18455995.html
Louis Rukeyser, long-time host of PBS's Friday night "Wall Street Week," died May 2, 2006, at the age of 73. (JAMES GRANT. "Louis Rukeyser, Television Host, Dies at 73." The New York Times (Weds., May 3, 2006).)
Louis Rukeyser was a pun-loving, urbane, optimistic analyzer of Wall Street and defender of the free market. His weekly "Wall Street Week" was the first show my daughter Jenny watched at home after we brought her home from her birth at Children's Hospital.
I never met him, though I remember once being on the same airplane with him. He was the narrator for my audio book: Frank Knight and the Chicago School.
PBS, true to form, fired Rukeyser from the show he created. I never watched it again, and the ratings for the Rukeyser-less version tanked: sometimes there is justice in the world.
Source of image: http://www.audioclassics.net/html/econ_files/knight.cfm
