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California Today: The 24 Hours When L.A. Went Up in Flames

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January 18, 2025, 9:30 a.m. Eastern time

At the very moment a fiery blaze tore over a ridge in Pacific Palisades, threatening houses, my husband and I were six miles southeast, wide-eyed in the entryway of a home we hoped would become our first.

It was a Tuesday morning — a wholly inconvenient time to attend an open house — but my husband saw it enter the market and had a good feeling about this one. We had each been saving aggressively for over a decade for our starter condo and had become the kind of couple who bickered over whether to splurge on an heirloom tomato. The down payment for a fixer-upper was coming together, and this one was ours, we could feel it.

I spent that evening and much of the next 10 days on assignment in the fire zone, whipped with ash by the Santa Ana winds as I spoke with families whose homes had burned. My husband packed a go bag for us as the evacuation order came within blocks of our apartment — all while quietly waiting to hear back on our offer. The guilt of pursuing a home weighed on us.

That modest little condo is — for us, at least — gone, not because of the flames but because of 14 competing offers that had landed by the weekend in the wake of the disaster, an unprecedented new market, even for L.A. We have not yet given ourselves permission to feel disappointed; it seems absurd to desire a home when so many families have lost much more than just dreams of one.

These fires will bring new consequences for our unaffordable city, for those whose homes were destroyed and for those, like us, trying to find a square foot to call our own. Still, I was struck by the words of a mother I met in the fire zone as she sifted through memories of her Palisades house. "After this experience," she told me, home was redefined. "You can build that little nest anywhere."

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Kamala's Final Humiliation

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I've tried to stay out of politics... 


Yeah, throughout my career, I've touched on it.  


However, I've preferred to keep my work apolitical (and spread my disdain for politicians equally across the board) because my goal has never been to moralize ... it's been to help my readers grow their wealth.    


That began to change during this Presidential cycle though


Because when you have an economic illiterate like Kamala openly advocating for insane, Marxist policies like price controls, taxing unrealized capital gains, and seizing intellectual property… I felt I had to step into the ring.   


After all, as Plato warned in the 4th Century B.C, "One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." 


I refused to be governed by someone who's suckled on the teat of the tax-payer her entire life… who's never had to compete in the real world… never held down a real job… never had to make payroll… never created anything of value.    


And while I've openly criticized Trump many times, he was unquestionably the only bulwark between America and the road to serfdom. So when Trump crushed Kamala on November 5, I breathed a sigh of relief.


I wasn't the only one, either.


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Since November 5, investors have pumped ~$140 billion into U.S. equities – the greatest one-month influx of capital in more than two decades –and this tsunami of new capital is Kamala's final humiliation.  


It's a complete and utter repudiation of the left's anti-growth, Socialist ideals… 


And I believe it could mark the turning point of a financial revival of unbridled, unprecedented magnitude – one with the potential to mint thousands of new millionaires over the next four years. 


It's why I'm urging my friends and family to make ten specific investments before January 20 – ten investments with the potential to return 10x or more if you get in now before anyone else knows about them.


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Trump restarting the Keystone pipeline…


Buying some worthless, overhyped crypto… 


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The investments connected to Trump's second term in ways that almost nobody outside his inner circle is aware of yet have the potential to deliver colossal returns over the next four years.


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I'm connected with people in his inner circle… economic and campaign advisors, personal friends, even the former CIA agent that Trump considered to head up the agency during his first term. 


I've also spent three decades connecting the dots on the economy, politics, and the financial markets to uncover the world's most lucrative investments.  


Now, for the first time, I'm going to share these ten investments publicly – the same ones I've discussed behind closed doors with some of America's savviest investors. 


The obscure, little-known companies we believe could 5x, even 10x, under Trump's second term… 


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Enjoy, 


Porter Stansberry 



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