Luskin contributes commentaries on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, and appears regularly on Fox Business.
[5] Luskin's investment career began in 1979, when he started a hedge fund while an options market maker on the Pacific Stock Exchange.
There as senior vice president, he invented POSIT, a crossing network enabling institutional investors to exchange entire portfolios with each other.
"[8] MetaMarkets.com, the venture-backed company that Luskin and Nadig founded to operate OpenFund, was funded primarily by the venture arm of global luxury goods firm LVMH.
"[9] At its peak, OpenFund received $45 million in investments, and the fund's biggest positions included companies like JDS Uniphase and Extreme Networks.
[11] Shortly thereafter, Luskin's escalating public dispute with Cramer led to his resignation from theStreet.com via real-time postings on the site's discussion boards that became a cause célèbre on the web.
[12] Luskin's predictions courted controversy again in 2008 when, in a September The Washington Post opinion piece,[13] he cited evidence of what he claimed were factual errors made by Barack Obama and members of his presidential campaign concerning the state of the economy.
Shortly afterward, following the sudden collapse of Lehman and several other large financial firms, the economy sharply worsened, and was subsequently declared to have been in recession all year by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
[15] The editors of The Yale Book of Quotations also made note of the inopportune timing of Luskin's editorial and included his prediction in their list of "Top ten quotes of 2008".
"[17] He has been frequently referred to by Brad DeLong as "the Stupidest Man Alive" for, among other things, his continued support for literal interpretations of the Laffer Curve.
Much of his blog and many of his NRO columns were devoted to arguments that economic facts, figures, and trends are distorted by politicians, pundits and the media.
From a perch on National Review Online, he regularly assaults Krugman's logic, his politics, his economic theories, his character and his accuracy.