Louis Rukeyser, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73.Back in the old days before we had cable, Dad would watch Wall Street Week on PBS every Friday night. He would get irked waiting for Washington Week in Review to be done with. Dad said that the real action happened on Wall Street and that they should end the Washington show and give Lou a whole hour. Dad would get excited on the nights that Marty Zweig or Stand Weinstein were guests.
As host of "Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser" on public TV from 1970 until 2002, Rukeyser took a wry approach to the ups and downs in the marketplace and urged guests to avoid jargon. He brought finance and economics to ordinary viewers and investors, and was rewarded with the largest audience in the history of financial journalism.
Lou would start off with a witty recap of the week that Dad loved and Mom hated. Much of it was over my head, as were the topics and opinions of the guests, but these were the days before CNBC and CNNfn. You could read Barrons and the Journal, but the only TV venue was Wall Street Week. How times change.
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