 Kevin Price is a radio host in Houston, Texas. Born December 18, 1961 in Detroit, Michigan, he grew up in the small suburb of Ferndale, Michigan until the age of 13 when he and his family left the state for Texas. This was due to the continued decline of the Detroit economy and because others in his family had moved to Texas. Kevin lived in the small town of Abilene and attended public schools there. Later he went on to attend Abilene Christian University where he graduated with a B.A degree with an emphasis in economic history. He went on to Washington, DC where he worked in public policy and political consulting and eventually found himself back in Texas.
Price hosts the Houston Business Show on CNN 650, is an award-winning author of several books, including Empowerment to the People, (receiving endorsements from then Congressman Dick Armey, economist Stephen Moore, and former White House Domestic Advisor James Pinkerton) which was a best seller in the public policy market and was published by the Free Congress Foundation, a prominent conservative public policy institution. He traveled numerous times to Eastern Europe (while Executive Director of the Free Enterprise Education Center) and the former Soviet Union (as a Senior Fellow with the American Economic Foundation) conducting seminars on how to convert their economies to free markets. He is the publisher of the Houston Business Review and has a blog called Business Plus. That blog, like his radio show, tends to have a Conservative/Libertarian bent. He tends to differ with Libertarians on cultural and social issues.
He has twice been published in Vital Speeches of the Day and has twice received the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in Communications. He has been a fixture on local and national rado talk shows since the early 1980s. In addition, Mr. Price is a Principal of HoustonBusiness.com and the President of the Houston Business Media Group.
Kevin Price is credited with coining the expression, "the Accumulator Class" and has used it in both articles and speeches. Accumulators are a defined demographic for economic and marketing purposes and are, typically, between the ages of 35 to 55, who are at the prime income earning stages in their careers, and who consider time to be among their most important assets. The importance Accumulators place on time is one of the forces driving the growth of the Internet and other tools that make life more convenient and are also playing a major role in the decline of traditional media (e.g., newspapers, TV, etc.), according to Price. [1]
Much of Kevin Price's early career was in politics and public policy. He was an activist for Students for Reagan in 1980, which led to job offers that took him to Washington, DC. He is a former Aide to a United States Senator (Gordon Humphrey, R-NH]) and worked as a policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research and other think tanks. In the early 1980s he was chosen an Outstanding Young Man of America.
Kevin Price lives in Houston with his wife and 8 children.
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