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The Obama administration admitted nearly 85,000 refugees into the United States in fiscal year 2016, the highest number since 1999.  Moreover, as we noted back in September, Obama's administration has laid the groundwork to increase that number even further in fiscal year 2017 to 110,000 (see "Hillbama Administration Plans To Admit At Least 110,000 Refugees In 2017"). 

Of course, not every state is doing their "fair share" to house the massive influx of immigrants with Pew Research Center recently pointing out that the top ten states are taking in 54% of refugees.

By Allan Flynn, Guest Post at BullionStar.com

“An avalanche can be triggered by a pebble if you get the timing right” 

Earlier this year at April’s hearings for London Silver and Gold Fix lawsuits, the judge and defendant’s attorney quipped about trader chats named “the mafia” and “the bandits” published in prosecutors findings of Forex investigations but conspicuously absent from precious metals investigation findings, and the silver and gold antitrust lawsuits under consideration.

With The Dow just one good day away from the nirvana of 20,000 - proving once and for all that the fiction-peddling naysayers are wrong about the US economy - Barron's unleashes its magazine cover curse to do all it can to end the party.

Another cover, another curse, or maybe Barron's has been right all along...

As we noted previosuly, the Trumplosion has been driven by just three stocks - Goldman Sachs, UnitedHealth Group, and Caterpillar - which together account for about 40% of the advance...

The following post apperared 12/9/2016 at Trader Scott's Market Blog:

By EconMatters

We delve into the market internals and the P/E Ratios of most stocks when taken as a whole are in never before seen valuation levels. We are not talking about just the high growth flyers but industrial companies with stagnant or declining growth like Caterpillar, Coca-Cola and Exxon Mobil in areas facing longer term structural headwinds.