…..3Q finishes on bullish highs. GOP tax scheme doesn’t add up. Tom Price flies into sunset. Consumer spending barely budges. PCE slips. Equifax freeze. Whole Food hack. Puerto Rico’s credit vultures. VW pays more. EVs cost less. Musk’ BFR. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 09-29-2017   DOW + 23 = 22,405 SPX + 9 = 2519 NAS + 42 = 6495 RUT + 2 = 1490 10 Y + .02 = 2.33% OIL + .02 = 51.58 GOLD – 7.30 = 1280.40   The S&P, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 closed at records for the third straight day and the benchmark S&P index posted its sixth straight month of gains. Add another notch in the over 8-year old bull market. Today marked the 38th session in 2017 in which the S&P 500 hit an intraday record level. September is normally a bad month in the markets but not this year. For September, the Dow gained 2.1 percent, the S&P rose 1.9 percent and the Nasdaq advanced 1.05 percent. Of the 11 primary S&P 500 sectors, nine posted positive returns over the month. And while Apple has stumbled in September, it remains the biggest contributor to the S&P for the year to date. Even the dollar posted a monthly gain for the first time since February.       And the third quarter numbers are good across the board with basically all regions, sectors, commodities, and bond categories seeing gains over the period. The S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials have ...