How long with Larry Kudlow last as economic advisor?

[Honeycombe8]

New Director of National Economic Council, chief economic advisor to Trump.... CNBC financial broadcaster.

Will he last longer than the Mooch. Yes. But less than John Kelly? Less than Kudlow's predecessor, Gary Cohn, who lasted 13 1/2 months? That was a pretty long stint for a White House cabinet member.

I'm guessing that at about a year it will become untenable for both Trump and Kudlow, although it may take a while to find a replacement.

[brewens]

1. Kudlow is probably going to need to get back to the blow and hookers to get in the

right spirit.

[Honeycombe8]

2. For real? He does blow & hookers?

What's with these old geezers? Is that ALL they think about? He's probably being spanked, too, then.

[brewens]

6. He got run out of Bear Stearns over that, then supposedly found JAYUSUS! I think that was the

story anyway.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Really? LOL. (oh, yeah...the "come to Jesus" moment thing). nt

[safeinOhio]

16. No one ever has that moment

until they are caught.

[NewJeffCT]

10. He had a $90,000 to $100,000/month coke habit

https://www.inquisitr.com/4824431/larry-kudlow-alcoholic-cocaine-addict-president-trump-pick-economic-advisor/

Says he's been sober for over 20 years now, though.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Wow. So he's been rich for a long time. $100k a mo. for a young man? He must've been millionaire. nt

[NewJeffCT]

15. Kudlow is 70 now

so, was in his mid 40s in the mid 1990s. Not exactly young.

He had worked in the Reagan White House prior to working on Wall Street, so probably had a pretty high salary going into a job on Wall Street.

Interestingly, he was very liberal politically in the 1970s and helped coordinate protests against the Vietnam War and also worked on Senate campaigns with then Yale student Bill Clinton. He later became a big supply-sider during the Reagan years.

[safeinOhio]

17. &100K/month?

Is that where they get “supply-sider?

[NewJeffCT]

18. as an executive on Wall Street

He probably made at least a few million dollars/year. Maybe his spending & drug habit was why his second wife divorced him - he spent the family into debt?

[Honeycombe8]

24. I suppose with the money came the concern for keeping it all & making more of it.

Greed is a big thing with a lot of rich people.

[unc70]

19. Nearly impossible to do that much cocaine

That would be a huge amount of coke, Scarface levels.

Prices have varied widely from the classic $100 per gram to more like $30 when Kudlow was supposedly doing the most. That works out to 1-3 KILOS per month for one person, 30-100 grams per day!!! Even sharing with the hookers, that is a lot.

It would be a lot at $100,000 for a year. That would still be 3-8 grams every day.

[NewJeffCT]

22. I'm guessing

he probably had wild parties with other executives where high end escort services were also provided with the cocaine.

[unc70]

23. But a 100 grams per day is still a lot

Even for a trading floor awash with coke, that would be a lot.

Maybe the $100k per month included the expensive escorts and expensive booze and wine.

[COLGATE4]

20. Don't know about the hookers but when he was a rising

"star" at Bear Sterns he was putting $100K up his nose every month.

[wishstar]

12. I had referred to him as a blow-hard for years before just recently learning his history

as a literal cokehead!

[brewens]

14. Even as we speak, Krudlow is out here on camera sniffing like coke freak! I shit you

not! On MSNBC.

[njhoneybadger]

3. Kudlow is a good bullshitter

[Bengus81]

4. Until he can get Jim Cramer to take his place.....

He can bring all the same sound effects shit he has on his set to his WH office and tell us how great that massive tax cut for Corporations is.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Cramer wouldn't take the job. I can tell he doesn't like Spanky. Or his policies.

Some of the best advice I've gotten is from Cramer. The serious analysts poo poo him, but they're jealous. Cramer has a proven track record of successful investing of funds for others (and himself). But no analyst is always right.

He's pretty good at spotting a bottom vs a false bottom. Less successful at whether a company will do well in a particular year; stock prices sometimes have little to do with the fundamentals of a company.

[oberliner]

5. Two months

[edhopper]

9. Kudlow

is a moral-less, TV blowhard idiot. He should stay as long as Trump does.

[spanone]

13. bet he already knows he stepped into a rat's nest

[unc70]

21. More like a hornets nest