Louis Richard Rukeyser was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television.
11 Facts About Louis Rukeyser
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Louis Rukeyser was famous for his pun-filled humor, and for advising investors to ignore short-term gyrations of the market and think long term.
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Louis Rukeyser was the younger brother of Merryle S "Bud", Jr.
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From 1954 to 1965, Louis Rukeyser worked as a political and foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun newspaper.
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Louis Rukeyser then moved to ABC television and worked as an economics correspondent and commentator.
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In 1970, he started the popular Public Broadcasting Service series Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser, produced by Maryland Public Television, a PBS member station, at its facilities in Owings Mills, Maryland.
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Louis Rukeyser took pride in creating the first television show which focused on Wall Street, using a combination of erudition, plainspokenness, and panache to make the arcane workings of the stock market and the economy better known to the public.
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In 1988, Louis Rukeyser had a cameo appearance in the film Big Business starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin.
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Louis Rukeyser played the part of a business man attempting to climb into a cab when Sadie hits him with her bag and takes the cab.
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In 2003, Louis Rukeyser was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
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Louis Rukeyser died of multiple myeloma at his Greenwich, Connecticut, home on May 2,2006.