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Larry Kudlow opens up about battle with addiction
NY Post ^ | September 3, 2020 | 10:30pm | Tamar Lapin

Posted on 09/03/2020 10:35:16 PM PDT by conservative98

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow opened up about his battle with alcohol and drug addiction during an event hosted by First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday.

Kudlow, 73, said it would have been “unthinkable” for him to occupy his current position 25 years ago, when he left his job as a Bear Stearns financial analyst and entered a 12-step program to deal with his dependence on booze and cocaine.

“I was a hopeless abuser of alcohol and drugs. I had tried several times unsuccessfully to get sober,” Kudlow said.

“Like a lot of my peers and friends, I went through bloody hell and suffered significant consequences. I was unemployable.”

Kudlow said that “by the grace of God” his wife Judith did not divorce him, and he was eventually able to get sober.

He celebrated 25 years of sobriety this June.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addiction; alcoholism; christian; cocaine; drugs; kudlow; larrykudlow; malach; malachtroll; melania; recoverymonth; redemption; trump
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To: malach

I am NOT dissing your religion. I have the utmost respect for observant Jews. I have heard rumors for many years that respected Rabbis, especially Orthodox, here and there, do believe that Jesus is the Messiah. And, of course, many Jews accept him as Messiah. Some of them worship at Messianic Jewish congregations, and some join protestant or Catholic churches. I don’t know if you have heard that if you study the 54th chapter of Isaiah, you will see Jesus there, but it is true. You will not see his name, but you will recognize that Isaiah was referring to the Christ. And if you read Matthew, Mark, John, and 1 Peter, you will see some references to Isaiah. And do you not recall that God told Abraham that he would be the father of many nations -— goyim. meaning, of course, gentiles, specifically. But Messiah was, is, and always will be, a Jew, as were His apostles. As were most of the first converts to Christianity. We Christians and Jews all spring from Abraham.


61 posted on 09/05/2020 6:33:08 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Alberta's Child

Yes indeed. I read many years ago of his conversion to Catholicism, I believe with the guidance of Fr. George Rutler.


62 posted on 09/05/2020 7:45:21 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: malach
Everyone on Wall Street knows about Kudlow’s former addiction issues.

Kudlow was one of the most respected financial economists in the world when he crashed and burned in 1995.

He has been completely open about this since he returned to Wall Street and financial journalism in the late 1990s.

63 posted on 09/07/2020 10:00:00 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: JonPreston

“Good for Larry. I admire people like him who fight thru addiction and then lead by example. I feel the same about obesity. When I see someone who is overweight walking or jogging, I quietly cheer them on.”

Agreed.


64 posted on 09/08/2020 3:00:19 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Williams

Not all of us can, apparently. Most of the people I know, however, are human. Human’s are fallible.

What species do you hang out with?


65 posted on 09/08/2020 3:03:53 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Malachi is so inadequate that he has to post ties stupid posts just to get attention he’s like a troll who just wants attention and throw everybody off a very interesting discussion he has nothing to contribute and so he just throws something out and people respond to him because it’s such a weird comment and nasty

Now watch he’ll do some personal name-calling or nasty response to this comment guaranteed


66 posted on 09/13/2020 11:49:16 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate of America and Freedom.)
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To: gibsonguy

Yeah I wish FR had a filter capability so one could simply filter out any and all posts from personally specified disruptors. It’s unneeded noise.

What’s important right now is getting Trump reelected. That’s it.


67 posted on 09/16/2020 8:26:33 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: conservative98
Larry never read or cared to read the part about maintaining anonymity at the level of press radio and films or the part about how, next to sobriety, anonymity is the most treasured possession. It shows the alcoholic the value of principles over personalities.
68 posted on 10/13/2020 2:29:44 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa

It was a White House Recovery Month Event. Educate yourself


69 posted on 10/13/2020 3:12:50 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

I’m 30 years sober. I know what I’m talking about.


70 posted on 10/13/2020 3:46:45 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: malach; conservative98

That fact remains that your comment is stupid.


71 posted on 10/13/2020 3:53:35 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: conservative98

When it comes to economic advisors, Larry is the GOAT — greatest of all time.


72 posted on 03/17/2021 10:52:18 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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