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.
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Yes indeed. I read many years ago of his conversion to Catholicism, I believe with the guidance of Fr. George Rutler.
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.
“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.
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?
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
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.
It was a White House Recovery Month Event. Educate yourself
I’m 30 years sober. I know what I’m talking about.
That fact remains that your comment is stupid.
When it comes to economic advisors, Larry is the GOAT — greatest of all time.
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