Jude Wanniski Addresses the False Charges Against Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan

Jude Wanniski (1936 – 2005) was an American journalist, conservative commentator, and political economist. He started Polyconomics, an economics forecasting firm, where he and his analysts advised corporations, investment banks and others. He also began directly advising politicians on economic policy, first candidate Ronald Reagan and later presidential hopefuls Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes. He helped design the tax cuts made during Reagan’s first term in office.

In the late 1990s, Wanniski developed a friendship with The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, stating in 1997: “My wife Patricia and I spent the four-day July 4th weekend in Chicago at the International Islamic Conference, hosted by the Nation of Islam, in conjunction with the World Islamic Peoples Leadership. It may have been the single most important political event I have witnessed in my life. … What made the event so important was that when the weekend began, Farrakhan was the spiritual leader of 200,000 members of the Nation of Islam and clearly the most influential of 33 million African-Americans. At its conclusion, Farrakhan stands a good chance at uniting 1.2 billion Muslims under his spiritual leadership.”