…..Dow hits 10th straight record. Thus spake Mnuchin. How to create jobs. Oil inventories slim down. More jobs in wind than oil. XOM de-books oil reserves. US-Europe flights for $65. McDonald’s soda for one buck. Ghosn gone. Earnings reports. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 02-23-2017 DOW + 34 = 20,810 SPX + 0.99 = 2362 NAS – 25 = 5835 RUT – 9 = 1394 10 Y – .03 = 2.39% OIL + .77 = 54.36 GOLD + 12.10 = 1250.30 The Dow Industrial Average hit another record high close, its 10th record in a row, its longest run of record closes since 1987. Not counting record closes, the last time the Dow logged gains for 10 straight sessions was March 2013. The S&P 500 finished up a fraction of a point and just short of Tuesday’s closing record of 2,365. The benchmark index set an intraday record of 2,368.00 before retreating.   Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said today that he has asked his staff to explore having the U.S. government issue debt maturities as long as 50 years or 100 years. In an interview on CNBC, Mnuchin said he was not ready to make a “formal announcement” of a 50-year or a 100-year bond. Mnuchin repeated it was the Trump administration’s goal to have Congress complete work on a tax-reform package by August. Trump has promised a “phenomenal” tax plan by early March to cut business taxes. Paying for that “phenomenal” tax plan could require an equally phenomenal rate of ...