Background
Kernen grew up in the Western Hills section of Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Saint Xavier High School in 1974.
Kernen grew up in the Western Hills section of Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Saint Xavier High School in 1974.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is currently co-host of Consumer News and Business Channel’s Squawk Box. His nickname is "The Kahuna". Kernen came to Consumer News and Business Channel in the 1991 merger with Financial News Network, having joined FNN after a 10-year career as a stockbroker.
He holds a bachelor"s degree from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree in molecular biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on cancer research.
Kernen had an emergency appendectomy late on August 5, 2010. In 2012, during the fiscal cliff crisis, Kernen at Consumer News and Business Channel began a "Rise Above" campaign to pressure Congress to cut spending.
In November 2014, he occasioned comment after expressing bewilderment to Martin Shanahan, during an on-air interview, that Ireland did not use the pound sterling and asking if Ireland and Scotland weren"t on the same island.
Kernen authored Your Teacher Said What?!: Defending Our Kids from the Liberal Assault on Capitalism (2011) with his then 5th grade daughter Blake.
