Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Barack Obama and the tidal wave of Mexican heroin over America's open borders


THE MEX HEROIN TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS AMERICA

RESULTING FROM THE DEMS’ SABOTAGE OF AMERICAN BORDERS TO BUILD THEIR LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS, THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE IN MORE THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES.


 

Philip Seymour Hoffman and the surge of the LA RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS over Obama's open and undefended borders


THE SURGE OF HEROIN FROM NARCOmex ACROSS OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS EVEN AS OBAMA SQUANDERS BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS

WHY THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS LOVE OBAMA:

SURGE IN MEX DRUGS THROUGH OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS

 

According to the report, the amount of heroin seized at the southern U.S. border increased 232% between 2008 and 2012 — apparently the result of greater Mexican heroin production and a growing incursion by Mexican traffickers into U.S. markets. It notes that the U.S. is experiencing a “sizable increase” in the number of new heroin users.


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/11/obamas-open-and-undefended-borders.html

THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS ENDORSE BARACK OBAMA’S SABOTAGE of HOMELAND SECURITY TO BUILD THE LA RAZA DEM PARTY BASE of VOTING ILLEGALS, AND TO EASE EVEN MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED and PROFITS HIGH FOR HIS WALL STREET DONORS.

MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “THE RACE” google it!


DRUG CARTELS FIND CALIFORNIA A GREAT PLACE TO LOOT!

Street gang that controls ALL of Orange County drug trade taken down: SWAT teams swoop on 120 members of the 'Mexican Mafia' a total of  129 people have been indicted by county and federal grand juries alleging crimes including murder, drug trafficking and extortion

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-mexican.html

More Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens than Iraq War, Study Says

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73% DEATHS ON OBAMA’S WATCH – DURING IS TERMS, HOW MANY AMERICANS (LEGALS) WERE MURDERED OR RAPED BY MEXICANS OR CHILDREN MOLESTED?

The 12-Year War: 73% of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan on Obama's Watch


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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death calls attention to rise in heroin use

More than 660,000 people in the U.S. used heroin in 2012, officials say, nearly a 100% increase over 2007. Abuse is increasingly seen in the suburbs.

By Matt Pearce and Tina Susman

9:53 PM PST, February 3, 2014

 
 

NEW YORK — The death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman underscores a surge in heroin use reminiscent of the 1970s and early '80s.

More than 660,000 Americans used heroin in 2012, health officials say — nearly double the number from five years earlier — and users tend to be more affluent than before, living in the suburbs and rural areas rather than the inner city.

"It's reached epidemic proportions here in the United States," said Rusty Payne, a Washington, D.C.-based spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Mexican cartels are pushing ever-larger amounts of heroin across the Southwestern border, sometimes hidden in fake coconuts, bananas and lollipops, officials said.

Heroin has flooded the Northeast and reached a large market of American pain-pill addicts seeking a less-expensive high. Overdoses and emergency room visits have skyrocketed across the country, officials say, and more are dying from a drug whose purity can be hard to judge.

Los Angeles traditionally was the final destination for Mexico's trade, but in recent years that distribution has spread across the United States, said Sarah Pullen, a special agent in the DEA's Los Angeles office.


"Increasingly, heroin addicts are former prescription drug abusers," Pullen said. "They become hooked on painkillers and move over to heroin because it is available for far cheaper."

Heroin users in L.A. can get a hit for as little as $8 to $10, officials say, so they can get high several times for what they would pay for a single, pricier pain pill.

The consequences have been increasingly lethal. In 2010 — the latest year such data were available — heroin overdoses killed more than 3,000 people across the U.S., a 45% increase since 2006, according to the DEA.

Hoffman's death at age 46 comes a week after Pennsylvania officials announced that a batch of heroin spiked with fentanyl had killed at least 22 people in January.

Spiked heroin also has killed at least 37 people in Maryland since September, chief medical examiner Dr. David Fowler said.

Although initial autopsy results on Hoffman are pending, the scene from the actor's New York apartment offered a sad tableaux probably familiar to emergency responders.

Hoffman was found dead with a needle in his arm. In his apartment were dozens of glassine packets, some containing powder, law enforcement officials said. Some packets were stamped Ace of Spades, marking them as a brand of heroin. Hoffman had battled addiction for years.

"Glee" star Cory Monteith, 31, also struggled with drugs. He died in a British Columbia hotel room in July after taking a combination of heroin, alcohol, morphine and codeine.

Heroin was a drug of choice for celebrities and inner-city addicts alike in the 1970s, often with fatal consequences. But its popularity declined in the 1980s as the HIV/AIDS crisis brought worries of infection-carrying needles. Crack cocaine supplanted heroin as a cheap, powerful option for poorer users.

Now, experts say, heroin is back. Americans' widespread abuse of prescription drugs has created a new market for the opiate, which gives users a powerful euphoria similar to that of pain pills.

"This last year, we've seen a big uptick in heroin use. It's become rapidly very popular," said Theodore J. Cicero, a professor of neuropharmacology at Washington University in St. Louis, who has been studying national drug treatment rates for seven years. "But now it's becoming a rural and suburban issue rather than an urban issue."

Most states had an increase in heroin patients from 2000 to 2010, according to federal statistics. The drug was particularly accessible in the Northeast, where officials say New York City serves as the transit point for heroin coming via road from the Southwest, via air from overseas and via ship from South America.

In New York, one oxycodone pill on the street costs about $30 and is good for just one hit. (Oxycodone is an ingredient derived from opium; in pill form, it's marketed as OxyContin.) For about the same price, buyers can get six glassines of heroin, according to Erin Mulvey, another DEA spokeswoman in New York.

"Six hits and six highs, versus one high for oxycodone," Mulvey said.

The DEA's Payne added: "Who would have ever thought in this country it would be cheaper to buy heroin than pills and obtain them more easily? That is the reality we're facing."

Heroin has such a grip on the Northeast that Vermont's governor dedicated his State of the State address to fighting the drug. The state saw a 250% increase in patients receiving treatment for heroin use since 2000.

"What started as an OxyContin and prescription drug addiction problem in Vermont has now grown into a full-blown heroin crisis," Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said in January. The greatest heroin treatment increase came in the last year, he said.

In the Vermont town of St. Albans, population 6,894, Fred Holmes was treating about 80 teenage opiate addicts in his pediatric practice when he retired last year. Many of the teenagers had started out as OxyContin addicts before the drug got too expensive, which is when they switched to heroin, he said.

"There's no socioeconomic discrimination in the world of addiction," Holmes said. "Doesn't matter if your father's an attorney and you have a house on the hill."

That message resonates with Aram Homampour, 46, who abused alcohol, Xanax and cocaine before he started smoking heroin. His addiction took him to rock bottom when he was about 34, he said.

"Bottom line, it presents your consciousness with another reality that at times is so amazing that if you have the power to visit it every day without destroying your life, you would," said Homampour, who has been clean for nine years and is the chief operating officer of the Malibu Beach Recovery Center. "By the time that you figure out it does destroy your life, you've lost the power of choice."

Grieving parents have lost more than choice.

Bob Lutz, 73, a retired police officer from St. Francis, Wis., is one of them. His daughter, Cassandra, 26, died of an overdose after attending a concert in March, and an acquaintance has been charged with injecting her with heroin.

"Her life has got to mean something, and all of these people who are doing this heroin stuff, they're not going to quit unless somebody someplace along the line puts a penalty on it big enough that they're going to stop," Lutz said. "And until they do that, it's going to get worse, and worse, and worse. It's as simple as that."

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Heroin 'epidemic' as drug grows more plentiful in U.S. [Infographic]

By Amy Hubbard

4:30 PM PST, February 3, 2014

 

The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is bringing attention to the growing use of heroin in the U.S. as well as an alarming rise in drug-overdose deaths.

The cause of death for Hoffman, found in his apartment Sunday, isn't official, but police say officers found packets of heroin near his body and a hypodermic needle in his arm.

Hundreds of thousands in the U.S. are turning to the drug in increasing numbers.  It's at "epidemic proportions," a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman told the L.A. Times.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a 102% increase in fatal overdoses from 1999 to 2010. 

Check out our graphic below, which shows how the availability of the drug has increased in the United States over the last several years. 

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Philip Seymour Hoffman dies amid major comeback of heroin in the U.S.

By Matt Pearce and Tina Susman

1:54 PM PST, February 3, 2014
 

NEW YORK -- Sometimes the traffickers inject liquid heroin into jeans so they can ship the drug where it needs to go. Sometimes it's a fake coconut or bananas.

In a few cases, according to federal officials, heroin is injected into the bellies of dogs.

However it arrives, hundreds of thousands Americans have been turning to heroin more and more in recent years, and officials across the country are sounding the alarm as fatal heroin overdoses have more than doubled in some states over the last decade.

Although the autopsy results for Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman are not yet known, packets of the drug were found Sunday in his New York apartment where he died, a needle sticking in his arm.

"It’s reached epidemic proportions here in the United States,” Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne said of heroin use.

Payne attributed the problem to a surge in heroin crossing the nation's southwestern border, where soaring seizures of the drug are a sign of soaring smuggling operations. In 2008, the DEA reported seizing 559 kilograms of heroin at the southwestern border; that more than tripled to 1,855 kilograms in 2012.

Other health experts and law enforcement agencies have said pain-medication addicts have turned to heroin to get a similar high after they lose access to popular prescription pills such as OxyContin.

In 2011, at least 178,000 Americans used heroin for the first time, according to the latest available estimate from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, almost doubling from five years earlier. And early indicators suggest that those numbers will continue to rise.

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"This last year, we’ve seen a big uptick in heroin use. It’s become rapidly very popular," Theodore J. Cicero, a professor of neuropharmacology at Washington University in St. Louis, told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview Monday.

For seven years, Cicero has been monitoring trends for patients in 150 drug treatment centers across the country. In 2011-12, about 10% of the people going into the drug abuse clinics were getting treatment for heroin abuse; that has risen to 20% to 25% of those clinics' patients over the last year, he said.

“We’re seeing patterns of heroin abuse increasing across the population, but now it’s becoming a rural and suburban issue rather than an urban issue," Cicero said.

Depending on the results of his autopsy, Hoffman may put the biggest face on a crisis that has hit the Northeast especially hard.

"What started as an Oxycontin and prescription drug addiction problem in Vermont has now grown into a full-blown heroin crisis," Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said in his State of the State address in January, which was primarily focused on the state's drug epidemic.

"We have seen an over 250% increase in people receiving heroin treatment here in Vermont since 2000, with the greatest percentage increase, nearly 40%, in just the past year," Shumlin said.

DURING AN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS, THE THREAT OF MEXICAN TERRORISM, MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AND THE GROWING POWER OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA (Funded with American tax dollars by HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA) DEMS URGE BORDERS BE PUSHED OPEN WIDER AND JOBS GO TO “CHEAP” LABOR VOTING MEXICAN ILLEGALS!!!

VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY??? Then vote DEM… Illegals are!

House Democrats urge consideration of immigration reform


 

 

THE CONSPIRACY TO PERPETRATE the OBAMA AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO'S LOOTING: Are immigration reformers talking down chances so opponents will drop guard? | WashingtonExaminer.com

Are immigration reformers talking down chances so opponents will drop guard? | WashingtonExaminer.com


In this way: If the public hears constantly that immigration reform is in trouble on Capitol Hill, that it has little or no chance of passage, then conservative activists, reassured that there's no threat, aren't likely to mobilize against it. What's the need? It's going to fail anyway. But if the public hears that immigration reform is steaming ahead, that the House leadership is determined to pass a bill, or bills, that will end up in conference with the Senate's already-passed Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform measure -- if the GOP base hears that, it will recognize the risk, speak out, and at the very least make things more difficult for immigration reform advocates.
 
when you get past the LIES, the SPIN and then more LIES….
AMNESTY… or continued NON-ENFORCEMENT!
Heather Mac Donald: White House doesn't want to enforce immigration
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are you still being conned by Obama?
THE SABOTAGE of the AMERICAN BORDERS by PRESIDENT OBAMA to BUILD THE LA RAZA DEM PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS and DESTROY the GOP WITH AMNESTY for 40 MILLION NEW UNREGISTERED DEMS
Byron York: What is the real number of illegal border crossings?
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BUILDING THE LA RAZA (unregistered dems) MEXICAN WELFARE STATE OFF OUR BACKS… 
OBAMA’S ENDLESS SABOTAGE OF AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY, BORDERS AND LAWS FOR THE INVADING MEXICANS!
Non-deportation rate drops — to 99.2 percent
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday.
 
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/05/obama-pleds-with-mexico-to-up-exports.html
DEPORTED MEXICAN LOOTERS TELL REPORTERS… WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK! GOOD GRINGO LOOTING AHEAD and will continue to vote for OBAMA!
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Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
…. LA RAZA already gets all our jobs!
what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the MEXICAN  now operate in 2,500 American cities!

THE OBAMA LOOTING of AMERICA FOR ILLEGALS and WALL STREET CRONIES: Byron York: Obamacare will reduce incomes of most Americans | WashingtonExaminer.com

Byron York: Obamacare will reduce incomes of most Americans | WashingtonExaminer.com


WHY BIG PHARMA LOVES BIG OBAMA… and his looting of America…

The more information that comes to light about the plans being offered through Obamacare demonstrates that, in their rapacious drive to increase profits, private insurance companies are not only charging steep premiums—some 30 percent higher than in the present individual market—but are peddling cut-rate policies with staggering out-of-pocket costs, which also limit access to doctors and hospitals.


 

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THE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON THAT AWAITS THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IN 2014:

CRONY CAPITALISM: Obama vows Wall Street’s looting will reach even greater dimensions during 2014.

………….. and his bankster donors’ profits are soaring!!!  


Income inequality grows four times faster under Obama than Bush


The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.

THE ENTIRE REASON BEHIND THE DEMS’ AND NOW GOP’S PLAN FOR AMNESTY IS TO KEEP THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS HAPPY WITH THE DEPRESSED WAGES THAT 40 MILLION OCCUPYING MEXICANS CAUSE!


Obama’s plan for long-term jobless: A teaspoon to bail out the ocean


By Patrick Martin
1 February 2014

 

The heavily publicized meeting between President Obama and several hundred corporate CEOs and other business leaders will do little or nothing to alleviate long-term unemployment. Those out of work for six months or more, the nominal beneficiaries of the effort, are only slightly more likely to get a job thanks to the Obama administration than they are to be struck by lightning.


 

 

State of the Union: A bankrupt ruling class talking to itself

30 January 2014

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was a cynical propaganda piece, filled with fraudulent claims and promises that no one, least of all his audience at the US Capitol, believes in the slightest.


With Obama’s speech Tuesday night one had more than ever the sense of the president as chief representative of the financial aristocracy that rules America, speaking to a house filled with millionaire congress members and bought-and-paid-for representatives of big business.

 

 

AMERICA…. NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!

JOBS – THE REALITY THEY DON’T WANT US TO KNOW… only illegals get them!

WORST JOB MARKET IN 40 YEARS… and getting worse!


 

 

AMERICA’S YOUTH TURN ON THE “HOPE & CHANGE” GUY…. in massive numbers!


 

 “Slowly, Mr. Obama has changed the United States into another country — the Soviet States of America — an authoritarian state where false promises of "hope and change" were used to manipulate the public.”

 

THE OBAMA and WALL STREET ASSAULT ON AMERICA CONTINUES: The Detroit bankruptcy and the global social counterrevolution

The Detroit bankruptcy and the global social counterrevolution

NO ONE HAS WORKED HARDER FOR
CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTER THAN
BARACK OBAMA… JAMIE DIMON IS ONE
OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS!

Why aren’t the Wall Street criminals prosecuted?

By Barry Grey
7 January 2014
In May 2012, only days after JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon revealed that his bank had lost billions of dollars in speculative bets, President Barack Obama publicly defended the multi-millionaire CEO, calling him “one of the smartest bankers we’ve got.” What Obama did not mention is that Dimon is a criminal.
 
 
JPMorgan is not the exception; it is the rule. Virtually every major bank that operates on Wall Street has settled charges of fraud and criminality on a staggering scale. In 2011, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a 630-page report on the financial crash of 2008 documenting what the committee chairman called “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest and wrongdoing.”
These multiple crimes by serial lawbreakers have had very real and very destructive consequences. The entire world has been plunged into an economic slump that has already lasted more than five years and shows no signs of abating. Tens of millions of families have lost their homes as a result of predatory mortgages pushed by JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks.

 
LOOTING – OBAMA CELEBRATES 5 YEARS OF WALL STREET CRONIES’ LOOTING


HOW OBAMA PUNKED a NATION WHILE HIS WALL STREET CRONIES LOOTED IT: Obama to mark fifth anniversary of financial crisis, highlight response - OBAMA ASSURES HIS WALL STREET CRONIES THE BEST LOOTING IS STILL AHEAD! The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
 
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/obama-to-mark-fifth-anniversary-of.html


The rich keep getting richer, combined net worth of America’s top 400 rises
 
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, September 16
RICH GET RICHER: Forbes on Monday released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans. Most of the top rankings didn’t change, but the fortunes of the majority of the elite club’s members grew, helped by strong stock and real estate markets.
HIGHEST TOTAL EVER: The people on the annual list posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever.
STILL No. 1: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remains America’s richest man, taking the top spot on the list for the 20th straight year with a net worth of $72 billion, up from $66 billion a year ago.

THE ENTIRE REASON BEHIND THE DEMS’ AND NOW GOP’S PLAN FOR AMNESTY IS TO KEEP THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS HAPPY WITH THE DEPRESSED WAGES THAT 40 MILLION OCCUPYING MEXICANS CAUSE!


Obama’s plan for long-term jobless: A teaspoon to bail out the ocean


By Patrick Martin
1 February 2014

 

The heavily publicized meeting between President Obama and several hundred corporate CEOs and other business leaders will do little or nothing to alleviate long-term unemployment. Those out of work for six months or more, the nominal beneficiaries of the effort, are only slightly more likely to get a job thanks to the Obama administration than they are to be struck by lightning.


State of the Union: A bankrupt ruling class talking to itself

30 January 2014

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was a cynical propaganda piece, filled with fraudulent claims and promises that no one, least of all his audience at the US Capitol, believes in the slightest.


With Obama’s speech Tuesday night one had more than ever the sense of the president as chief representative of the financial aristocracy that rules America, speaking to a house filled with millionaire congress members and bought-and-paid-for representatives of big business.
 

AMERICA…. NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!

JOBS – THE REALITY THEY DON’T WANT US TO KNOW… only illegals get them!

WORST JOB MARKET IN 40 YEARS… and getting worse!


AMERICA’S YOUTH TURN ON THE “HOPE & CHANGE” GUY…. in massive numbers!

 

 “Slowly, Mr. Obama has changed the United States into another country — the Soviet States of America — an authoritarian state where false promises of "hope and change" were used to manipulate the public.”


NO ONE HAS WORKED HARDER FOR
CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTER THAN
BARACK OBAMA… JAMIE DIMON IS ONE
OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS!

Why aren’t the Wall Street criminals prosecuted?

By Barry Grey
7 January 2014
In May 2012, only days after JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon revealed that his bank had lost billions of dollars in speculative bets, President Barack Obama publicly defended the multi-millionaire CEO, calling him “one of the smartest bankers we’ve got.” What Obama did not mention is that Dimon is a criminal.
 
JPMorgan is not the exception; it is the rule. Virtually every major bank that operates on Wall Street has settled charges of fraud and criminality on a staggering scale. In 2011, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a 630-page report on the financial crash of 2008 documenting what the committee chairman called “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest and wrongdoing.”
These multiple crimes by serial lawbreakers have had very real and very destructive consequences. The entire world has been plunged into an economic slump that has already lasted more than five years and shows no signs of abating. Tens of millions of families have lost their homes as a result of predatory mortgages pushed by JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks.
 
 
LOOTING – OBAMA CELEBRATES 5 YEARS OF WALL STREET CRONIES’ LOOTING
 
 
HOW OBAMA PUNKED a NATION WHILE HIS WALL STREET CRONIES LOOTED IT: Obama to mark fifth anniversary of financial crisis, highlight response - OBAMA ASSURES HIS WALL STREET CRONIES THE BEST LOOTING IS STILL AHEAD! The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
 
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/obama-to-mark-fifth-anniversary-of.html
 
 
The rich keep getting richer, combined net worth of America’s top 400 rises
 
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, September 16
RICH GET RICHER: Forbes on Monday released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans. Most of the top rankings didn’t change, but the fortunes of the majority of the elite club’s members grew, helped by strong stock and real estate markets.
HIGHEST TOTAL EVER: The people on the annual list posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever.
STILL No. 1: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remains America’s richest man, taking the top spot on the list for the 20th straight year with a net worth of $72 billion, up from $66 billion a year ago.