Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:  

• Ukraine Belongs in the ‘European Family,’ EU Chief Says on Kyiv Trip.
• Ukraine Update: Deripaska, Putin’s Daughters Hit by EU Sanctions.
  
• Fury Over Ukraine War Crimes Has Been Swift. Justice Likely Won't Be.   
• Ex-UN Food Chief Urges Calm as Food Prices Jump Most on Record.  
• Ukraine Corn, Wheat Exports Will Plummet Further, U.S. Says.
• Economists Boost Inflation Expectations in Worrying Sign for Fed.
• ECB Is Crafting Crisis Tool to Deploy If Bond Yields Jump.
• With Bonds in a ‘Coma,’ Buy Commodities: Bridgewater’s Patterson.
• Summers Sees Consensus Building Toward Inevitable U.S. Recession.
• Retail Junk-Bond Investors Fight the Fed in Pursuit of Yield.
• Richest Agriculture Family’s Fortunes Jump as Food Prices Surge.  
• Too Much Information From Markets Is Jamming Up Real-Time Trading Models.  
• Health Care Stocks Have Record Week as Investors Run for Safety.  
• Hybrid Work Poses Credit Risk to Cities Looking to Issue Debt. 
• Judge Forbids Treasury From Recouping Covid Relief From States.

Wall Street Journal:

• Missile Strike Kills Dozens Fleeing at Donbas Train Station.
• Latest Updates: U.S. Will Reposition Patriot Missile System to Slovakia.
• Germany Faces Pressure to Bolster Response to Russia.
• Grim Times Befall Ukraine’s Farms.
• War Drives Food Prices to Records.
• Apologies for Hunter Biden’s Laptop. Smeared as stooges for Russia in 2020, Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley can claim vindication in 2022.
• About That ObamaCare ‘Glitch’. The White House moves to expand subsidies by executive fiat.
• America’s Shoplifting Epidemic. Retail theft seems to have been normalized in many U.S. cities.
• More Than 1,000 Books Banned From Schools Since July 2021, Study Finds.
• Musk’s One Twitter Board Seat May Be Enough to Bring Big Changes.
• China’s Lockdowns Hit Supplies to Companies.
• Interest-Rate Surge Starts to Ripple Through Economy.

Fox News:

• US sounds alarm about 'indications' of Putin's army entering next 'phase' of war.
• Reporter blasts her own liberal newsroom over Hunter Biden coverage.

CNBC:

• Big banks’ earnings and a hot inflation report could sway markets in short holiday week.
• As inflation bites and America’s mood darkens, higher-income consumers are cutting back, too.
• Elon Musk says Tesla may have to get into the lithium business because costs are so ‘insane’.
• Target tiptoes back into resale with new ThredUp deal, as it makes sustainability push.
• Here’s why the dollar’s dominance will most likely continue.

Zero Hedge:

• "Atlas Slugged" - One Bank Turns Apocalyptic With "Inflation Shock" Worse; "Rate Shock" Starting; "Recession Shock" On Deck.
• Democrats Block Subpoena For Hunter Biden To Testify Before Congress.
• Where Will The Food Riots Start?
• Trudeau Sets "Dangerous Precedent" With Tax Hikes On Canadian Banks And Insurers.
• Bank Of Russia Eases More Capital Controls, Allowing Euro & USD Withdraws.
• Durham Asks Court To Compel Production From Clinton Campaign, DNC.
• Global Food Prices Explode Higher In March As Ukraine Supply Shock Strikes.
• David Stockman On The Coming Stock Market 'Crash Of Biblical Proportions'.
• European Markets Freak Out As Odds Of Le Pen Victory In French Presidential Elections Jump.
• JPMorgan Warns Of Imminent "Acute Agricultural Supply Shock" And How To Trade It.
• Palladium, Platinum Soar After London Market Blocks Russian Products.
• Elon Musk To Host 'Rare' Internal Q&A As Twitter Employees Grumble About His Influence.
• NBC Journalists Livid Over Plan To Hire Jen Psaki As MSNBC Pundit.
• Bonds & Stocks Battered As Hawkish Fed Flexes, Europe Panics.

MarketWatch.com:  

• As food prices hit an all-time high, more Americans have abandoned online grocery shopping and returned to supermarket aisles.
  
• Is the food you’re eating at restaurants from the freezer? Increasingly, yes.
  
• Conagra says meat snacks and frozen food taking an inflation-related hit from protein and transportation costs.  
• U.S. recession indicator is `not flashing code red’ yet, says pioneering yield-curve researcher.  
• Transport stocks keep falling as analyst says a freight recession is ‘likely inevitable’.

NewsMax:

• Ric Grenell: Chinese 'Laughing All the Way' Over Hunter.
• Russians Bury Dead Soldiers as Kremlin Admits Major Losses in Ukraine.  
• EU Chief Vows Speeded-Up Process for Ukraine to Seek Membership. 
• Putin Attends Funeral With Suspected Nuclear Briefcase, Stoking Nuke Fears.

TheGatewayPundit.com:  

• UPDATE: A Jaw-Dropping 769 Athletes have Collapsed While Competing Over The Past Year – “Avg. Age of Players Suffering Cardiac Arrest is JUST 23” – (VIDEO).
• GIANT RALLY IN CALI THIS SUNDAY! Truckers Converge with Thousands of Protesters! “IT IS FAR FROM OVER!” EPIC VIDEO!!
• Pete Buttigieg Says Prohibiting Classroom Instruction of Sex and Gender Identity in Kindergarten Classes Will “Kill Kids” (VIDEO). 
• Biden Administration Threatens to “Hold States Accountable” for Passing Laws That Protect Children From Gender Surgery and Puberty Blockers – (VIDEO).
• HUGE BLOW TO FAKE NEWS AND FBI: Zero Guilty Verdicts in Case of Alleged Plot to Kidnap Leftist Governor Whitmer – Not Guilty Verdict for 2, Hung Jury on 2 Including Ring Leader!
• The New “Rigged” Movie Covers the Zuckerberg Interference in 2020 Election — Here’s What They Missed.
• Illinois House Bill Will Order Gas Stations to Post Pritzker Propaganda Sign in Window that Is a Complete Lie or Face $500 Fine per Day.
• WATCH: Democrat Lawmakers Don’t Know the Price of Gas in Their States… and They Don’t Care.
• More Lawlessness… Todd Bensman: Biden Regime Is Running a Mass Asylum Fraud Rubber Stamp Operation on the US Border (VIDEO).
• Meet Sarah Whitt the Official Behind the Wisconsin Voter Rolls that Included 3.42 Million Extra Ineligible Voters and Now Works for ERIC.
• FLASHBACK: Text Messages Reveal Joe Biden and His Wife Colluded to Suppress HUNTER’S ACTIONS WITH A CERTAIN MINOR.
• Marxist Reset: Federal “Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force” (Yes, Really) Announces The US Will Rename 660 Mountains, Rivers, and landmarks to Remove “Racist” Language – More Surely to Come.

The Epoch Times:

• Memo Reveals State Department Assessed in Early 2020 That Lab Leak Was Most Likely Origin of COVID-19.
• Hunter Biden Asked Father to Write College Recommendation Letter for Chinese Business Associate’s Son: Leaked Emails.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 803,168 Reports(+3,437 from prior week) Through April 1st, 2021.

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.

Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):

• Our World in Data:  New Global Covid-19 Cases(7-day rolling average graphs). New US Covid Hospital Admissions/ICU Admissions/Deaths
  
• FT.com:  Fully Vaccinated by Country(graph). Global Lockdown Stringency Index(map).
• Bloomberg.com:  International Travel Restrictions.  Case Graphs by State.
  
• NYTimes.com:  County Trends and Clusters. Local ICU Occupancy.
  
• Brown School of Public Health:  Covid Severity by State/County(map).  US Hospital Capacity(region).
  
• CovidActNow:  Covid Severity/Infection Rate by Metro Area.
  
• KFF:  US Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity.
  
• Carnegie Mellon: Covid-Like Symptoms in Community. Covid Symptom Searches on Google. Covid-Related Dr.Visits.  Restaurant Visits. Wearing Masks. (graphs)
  
• Safegraph.com:  Commerce Patterns(graphs).