Larry Kudlow, an American story

His optimism is a trait he acquired in the aftermath of what he calls “my personal crash and burn.” In 1994, Kudlow, who’d risen rapidly from his first job as a staff economist at the New York Fed to Wall Street, then to a post in the Reagan administration, was forced out from his job as chief economist at investment bank Bear Stearns for abusing alcohol and cocaine. ....a five-month stint in a Minnesota rehab clinic, where he deepened what had been a budding interest in Catholicism.

Born into a middle-class Jewish family in New Jersey, Kudlow was baptized in 1997 into not just the Roman Catholic Church, but also a community of conservative Catholics of which he remains a proud member. The