Monday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• US Push for Release of Hostages Delays Israeli Ground War, But Won’t Stop It.
• Israel Latest: More Aid Trickles into Gaza as Death Toll Rises. 
• Israel Says Hezbollah Dragging Lebanon Toward War as Towns Empty.
• US Sends More Warships, Anti-Missile Batteries to Middle East.
• From NYC to London and Madrid, Israel’s Diaspora Return to Intensifying Fight. 
• Live: Updates on Argentina's Presidential Election Results.
• Japan’s Ruling Party Loses a Special Election in Blow to Kishida.
• Yen Breaches 150 Per Dollar Again, Raising Intervention Risk.
• Asia Stocks Set For Losses as US Volatility Rises: Markets Wrap. 
• Oil Steadies as Israel Delays Gaza Invasion Amid Hostage Talks.
• Deals Rebound Crashes Into a New World of Risk to End the Year.
• Central Banks Search for Lessons From the Great Inflation Outbreak.
• Apple Supplier Foxconn to Work With China on Unspecified Probes.
• When Japan Ends Negative Rate Policy, Treasuries Will Suffer.
• Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.

Zero Hedge:

• Hamas & IDF Ground Forces Clash For 1st Time Inside Gaza: Israeli Soldier Killed, Others Wounded
• Fan Tells Dave Chappelle To "Shut Up", Comedian Blasts Israel, Sparking Walkout, Report Says.
• Capital Flight: How China's Elite Are Using Japan's Real Estate Market To Escape Xi's Economic Maelstrom.
• Black Lives Matter Leader Stands Behind J6 Prisoners, Endorses Trump.
• Lowering Risk As We Enter Forced Frugality.
• Watchdog Says 66,000 People Kept Getting Food Stamps Despite Disqualifying Lottery Wins.
• "The Whole George Floyd Story Was A Lie": Tucker Carlson.
• Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• Fugees Rapper Who Helped Launder Millions From CCP To Obama Campaign Demands New Trial, Claims Lawyer Used AI.
• "Check Please": Trump Breaks Silence On Biden Family's $200,000 'Direct Payment' To Biden.
  
• Unfit To Fight: 68% Of US Service Members Obese Or Overweight
• TME Weekend: QT in vogue, reversed iceberg and the fattest trade.
• Allianz Trade Says Oil Could Hit $140.
• Jon Stewart Splits With Apple Over "Creative Differences" After Refusing To Bend Over On China.
• "Hold On Tight": The Spike In Yields Is Equivalent To 3 Rate Hikes.
• "Don't Go To College": Bill Maher Compares Universities To "North Korean Re-Education Camp".
• The Moment When The Fed Felt The Game Was Slipping Away.
• Our Mutually Reinforcing Crises: Not All Polycrises Are Equal.
• Subprime Auto Loan Delinquency Erupts, Reaching Highest Rate On Record.
• The Generals at 46x. Is it sustainable? 
• Global Natural Gas Supply Needs $7 Trillion Investment To Meet Demand.
• The Israel-Hamas War Is Already Pushing The Great Reset Agenda.
• Intelligence Failures - Again.
• University Of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists And Their Families.
• Why US Businesses Can't Wait To Get Out Of China.
• Bidenomics Rejected: Trump Ahead In Swing States, Leads Among Young Voters.
• Weaponization Of Fanaticism – Why Leftists Love Islam Even Though Islam Hates Them.

Wall Street Journal:

• Video Analysis Shows Gaza Hospital Hit by Failed Rocket Meant for Israel.
• Israel-Hamas War Sows Division Within Entertainment Industry.
• Americans Back Israel but Are Wary of Getting Pulled Into Conflict.
• War Destroys Leftist Orthodoxies. Those defending Hamas in the name of anticolonialism are being discredited.
• These Five Charts Explain Why Illegal Immigration Is a Bigger Problem Than Ever.
• Food Is on Sale Again. You Might Still Have Sticker Shock.
• As U.S. Debt Surges, Europe Brings Its Own Under Control.
• America’s Downtowns Are Empty. Fixing Them Will Be Expensive.
• Why Bidenomics Isn’t Popular. Minority families have fallen behind, a new Federal Reserve report says.

CNBC:

• GM and Ford will answer to Wall Street and the UAW with third-quarter earnings this week.
• Paramount’s Shari Redstone is open for business, but business may not be open for her.
• Top Wall Street analysts favor these five dividend stocks during tumultuous times.

Reuters:

• Foxconn faces tax audit, land use probe, Chinese state media reports.

MarketWatch.com:

• Big-tech results will decide ‘where we go from here’ amid investor caution. They would fall if it weren’t for this one company.

NewsMax:

• Austin: Preparing for Attacks on US Troops in Middle East.
• Israel to Iran: If Hezbollah Joins War, 'Head of the Snake' Will Be Cut Off.
• Speaker Battle Has 10 Candidates; Emmer, Hern Emerge. 
• US Rushes Advanced THAAD Missile Defense to Mideast.
• Israel's Defense Minister: In 3 Months Hamas Will Not Exist. 
• Chad Wolf: Biden's Border Polices Endanger US.
• Malliotakis: Open Border Poses Alarming Terrorist Threat.

Fox News:

• McConnell issues urgent warning on China, Russia, Iran as war escalates in Middle East. 
• Israel delivers sharp response to Greta Thunberg after 'Stand With Gaza' post.
• SEE IT: Israeli army unleashes new game-changing weapon that neutralizes threats
• Sen. Cruz issues warning on Biden-appointed ‘Iranian spies’ working in US government
• Pentagon sounds alarm over escalating threat among US defense officials

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Joe Biden Shuffles Along the Beach, Callously Ignores Questions About Americans Held Hostage by Hamas (VIDEO).
• WHY IS RASHIDA TLAIB SILENT After Dem Activist and Prominent Detroit Synagogue President Was STABBED TO DEATH Outside Her Home In Tlaib’s District?
• Retired Army CPT, Iraq War Veteran, and J6 Defendant Gabriel Garcia Blocked from Entering Base for Medical Assistance – Biden DOJ Put Him on Terrorist List for Walking Inside US Capitol – PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.
• WORLD WAR 3 WATCH: Pentagon Announces ‘Prepare to Deploy’ Orders, Additional Missile Defenses, and Another Carrier Strike Group for Middle East Amid Recent Escalations by Iran and Its Proxy Forces.
• Died Unexpectedly: 16-Year-Old Texas High Schooler Dies Mysteriously At Cross-Country Meet.
• EU, US, Canada Voice Strong Condemnation Against Communist China Following Maritime Collision Involving Chinese and Philippine Vessels in West Philippine Sea, Escalating Tensions in the Disputed Sea.
• As Many as 25 Conservative MPs Are Reportedly About to Try to Oust Rishi Sunak as British Prime Minister.
• WORLD WAR 3 WATCH: China Deploys Six Warships to Middle East Amid Rising Tensions From Israel-Gaza War.
• Ted Cruz Castigates Biden for Funding Hundreds of Billion to Iran and, by Proxy, Hamas: “Biden’s Obsession with Appeasement and Funding Terrorism is Deadly”.
• Conservative Swiss People’s Party Wins in Landslide Over Green Party in National Referendum – Mass Immigration in Switzerland a Major Factor.
• Michigan State Issues Apology After Image of Hitler Appears on Scoreboard Before Game.
• If They Were Trump Supporters They’d Be Locked Up for 3 Years – Pro-Palestinian Protesters Brawl with Police in New York City (VIDEO).
• Why Was It So Hard for Elite Universities to Condemn Hamas Terrorism?
• Obama-Appointed Judge Halts Tennessee City Ordinance Banning Drag Shows From Public Spaces.
• Jesse Watters Examines the Grim State of the Nation (and World) on Joe Biden’s Watch (VIDEO).
• Elon Musk Punishes the New York Times on TwitterX for Pushing Fake News About Bombing of Hospital in Gaza.
• Conservative Law Professor William Jacobson Explains How the Left Took Over and ‘Radicalized’ Almost Every College.
• Cutting off the Head of the Snake: Swiss Banker Pascal Najadi Calls on Swiss Authorities to Arrest People Behind the Release of “Bioweapon” COVID-19 Shot in New Documentary (VIDEO).
• CVS Removes Popular Cold Medicines From Store Shelves: Sudafed, Mucinex, Allegra, Dayquill ‘Fail to Outperform Placebo Pills’.
• Joe Biden’s Soros Funded ‘TikTok Army’ Uses Hamas-Affiliated Outlet to Push Propaganda.

The Epoch Times:

• Not Tearing Up Beijing's 99-year Lease on the Port of Darwin Is a Grave Mistake.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 988,705 Reports(+1,488 from prior week) Through September 29th, 2023.

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.

Night Trading

• Asian indices are -.75% to -.25% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 137.5 +2.0 basis points.
  
• China Sovereign CDS 87.0 +.5 basis point.
• China Iron Ore Spot 111.7 USD/Metric Tonne -.8%.
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 41.2 -.04%.
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 67.1 +2.1%.
• Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index -.25 +2.0 basis points. 
  
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 20.6 -.7%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures +.05%.
• S&P 500 futures +.22%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures +.25%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are modestly lower, weighed down by commodity and industrial shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open modestly higher and to weaken into the afternoon, finishing mixed.  The Portfolio is 25% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Israel Latest: Gaza Air Strikes to Intensify Before ‘Next Stage’.
• Aid Gets to Gaza for First Time Since Israel-Hamas War Began. 
• What to Know About Islamic Jihad, the Group Accused of Striking Gaza Hospital.
• Energy Stocks Keep Rising After Middle East Tensions Widen.
• China’s Property Woes Pour Cold Water Over Steps to Boost Stocks.
• Stock Pickers Sidelined With World Events Overshadowing Earnings.
• Chevron, Repsol Poised to Capitalize on Venezuelan Oil Opening. 
• The 5% Bond Market Means Pain Is Heading Everyone’s Way.
• Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on Record. 
• Wild Treasuries Swings Just Starting as Bond Traders ‘Buckle Up’.
• Charting the Global Economy:

Zero Hedge:

• "The Whole George Floyd Story Was A Lie": Tucker Carlson.
• "First In The Nation": Arkansas Forces Chinese Company To Sell Its Farmland. 
• China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel.
• China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel.
• APEC Leaders Can’t Ignore Xi’s Widening Uyghur Genocide.
• Census Data Shows 871,000 Californians Left The Imploding State In 2022.
• "Cardboard Box Recession" An Ominous Sign Of Faltering Consumer, Schwab Warns. 
• Behind A Secret Chinese Biolab In California, A Global Web Of Connections.
• Gasoline Prices Have Been Insulated From Oil's Surge Until Now.
• You Must Be In 'The Six-Figure Club' To Afford A House.
• Is A Financial Crisis Already Here? US Banks Are Closing 100s Of Branches And Laying Off 1000s Of Workers.
• Aid Convoy Enters Gaza From Egypt For 1st Time As Confirmed Hostages Is 210.
• As Biden Seeks Second Term, Some Voters Question His Record.
• US Senate Staffer Robbed At Gunpoint In DC As Crime Crisis Spirals Out Of Control.
• NATO Sends Drones, Planes And Ships To Baltic Sea Following Suspected Undersea Sabotage.
• The 10 things you need to know about the selling this week.
• The Most Important Poll Yet For Germany's Anti-Immigration AfD Party?
• UBS Cutting An Additional 10% Of Credit Suisse "Support Staff".
• Some Call It Conspiracy Theory, Part 2.
• From VIX exuberance to prudent fear.
• Why Was It So Hard For Elite Universities To Condemn Hamas Terrorism?
• Jordan Out As Speaker Candidate After 3rd Loss.
• "Dangerous And Misguided": California AG Flips Out After Judge Strikes Down Assault Weapons Ban.

Wall Street Journal:

• Electric Cars Were Already Having Issues. Then Things Got Political.
• Gaza Receives First Aid Trucks Since Hamas Attack.
• Hamas’s Gaza Chief, Once a Prisoner in Israel, Is Now a ‘Dead Man Walking’
• Biden Wanted to End ‘Forever Wars.’ Now He Looks Like a Wartime President.
• Here’s What Retirement on a Boat or RV Looks Like in America.
• Amazon and TikTok Are on a Collision Course.
• Housing’s Other Threat to the Economy.
• Track My Phone, Please: Teens Feel Safer When Parents Monitor Their Every Move.
• Nike, Once the Footwear Industry Trendsetter, Is Playing Catch Up.
• The Debate Inside Facebook and Instagram Over Suppressing Comments in the Palestinian Territories.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (LULU), (ONON), (NKE) and (AEO).
• Had bearish commentary on (GPS).

CNBC:

• The housing market was already painful, ugly and anxious. Now the 8% mortgage rate is back.
• Robocalling is already an issue for Americans. AI is making it worse.
• Chinese listings overseas getting complicated despite growing interest, says NYSE’s Ge.
• Web Summit CEO resigns after apologizing for Israel-Hamas war comments.

MarketWatch.com:

• Mike Pence faces a cash shortage and questions about how much longer his 2024 campaign can survive.
• U.S. budget deficit swells to $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2023 as revenue tumbles.
• Birkenstock’s IPO was one of the worst debuts for a billion-dollar deal in a decade.
• It’s a ‘tale of two housing markets’ with buyers and sellers at opposite ends, Fannie Mae CEO says.

NY Post:

• Knives out in House GOP whip race over Tom Emmer's Support for Electoral College abolition. (Oct. 2022)
  

NewsMax:    

• Israel Vows to 'Fight Until Victory' After Release of 2 US Hostages.
• Dennis Prager: World Chaos Is Biden's Doing.
• Rep. Comer: Joe Biden's Brother Paid Him $200K in 2018.
• Oklahoma Rep. Hern Says He's Running for Speaker. 
• Rep. Chris Smith to Newsmax: Bidens' $200K Exposes Corruption.

Fox News:

• Israeli-American reservist, 22, killed in Hezbollah missile attack, Israel fires back.
• Professor under investigation for 'revolting' post threatening children of 'Zionist journalists'.
• Washington Post slammed for 'horrifying' description of kids held hostage by Hamas.
• Staggering migrant numbers deliver new blow to Biden's border strategy.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• You Just Can’t Make This Up: GOP House Members Are Likely to Elect Former Soros Group Spokesman as Speaker of the House – Who Wanted to End Electoral College – AND There’s Video!
• Breaking: President Trump tells Allies He Will Not Support Former Soros-Funded Group’s Spokesman Tom Emmer for Speaker.
• Tucker Carlson Challenges Prevailing Narratives on George Floyd’s Cause of Death Based on New Court Documents in a Bombshell Episode: Derek Chauvin “Didn’t Murder George Floyd” (VIDEO).
• RINO Ken Buck Voted Against Jim Jordan: Now Facing Eviction From Main Colorado Office (Video).
• Bill Maher Argues Against Going to Elite Colleges, Warns they Make Students ‘Stupid’ and Promote ‘Indoctrination’ – “If Ignorance is a Disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan Wet Market”.
• The Enemy Within: THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS Chant “Allahu Akbar!” and Scream for Israel’s Destruction During Pro-Hamas Walkout in Dearborn, Michigan (VIDEOS).
• State Says High Schoolers Can Graduate Without Showing Proficiency in Math, Reading. 
• Ted Cruz Calls Out Coca-Cola’s Support of BLM After Chicago Chapter’s Pro-Hamas Post.
• Georgia Taxpayers Will Now Pay for State Employees and Teachers to Get Sex Changes.
• Judicial Watch: Obama ‘Arrived at the Emergency Response Scene’ Following Tragic Drowning of his Chef Near His Home – Secret Service Video Shows Chef Entering Water.
• London: Palestinian Supporters Urge Muslim Armies to Invade Israel and Free Gaza.
• New Yorker Who Survived Hamas Terrorist Attack at Nova Music Festival Reacts to Antisemitism Protests at Home: ‘Feel Safer in Israel than in US’ (Video).
• REPORT: Rep. Kevin Hern Who is Running for House Speaker Reportedly Profiting Significantly from Ongoing Wars in Ukraine and Israel Per His Stock Holdings.
• HUGE: Italy to BAN Fake Lab Grown Meat.
• San Francisco Apartment Building Loses $250 Million in Value Amid Crime Crisis – Now Facing Forclosure.
• Journalist Goes Off on Her Colleagues in the Media for Acting Like ‘Stenographers of Terrorists’ (VIDEO).
• Chicago Alderman Rushed Away by Police When She’s Confronted by Angry Residents Protesting New Migrant Camp (VIDEO).
• Climate Change Brat Greta Thunberg Tweets Support for Gaza With Anti-Semitic Symbol.

The Epoch Times:

• Chinese Homebuyers Stage Protests Nationwide

 Breitbart:

• Exclusive: At Least a Dozen Republicans Band Together in Growing Movement to Stop Tom Emmer from Taking Speakership. “Tom Emmer is an absolute never Trump politician,” a GOP strategist told Breitbart News. “He failed to secure the red wave. Worked for a Soros-funded group. Trashed President Trump to candidates and donors. He is Nancy Pelosi in a suit, but with less balls to do anything.”

Independent Sentinel:

• House GOP on a Suicidal Path with a RINO-ESG-Soros Whip(Nov. 2022). 

Twitter:

• @visegrad24 - 2 weeks ago an Islamist terror group killed 30 U.S. citizens and kidnapped dozens more. Large crowds are now gathering in front of Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. to pray and protest against Israel. (pic)
• @EndGameWW3 - Israeli officials insist release of US hostages won’t impact planned Gaza operation.
• @WallStreetSilv - Is there any mention of this in the mainstream German news media? I heard that there is mostly a blackout in local German media to minimize all of this. They don’t want German citizens to be aware of what their government has unleashed on their country. Any Germans reading this who can reply below? (video)
• @spectatorindex - BREAKING: Hezbollah's deputy leader says the group is already 'in the heart of the battle' and that it is 'making achievements'.
• @MarinaMedvin - 1) NYTs hires Palestinian who praised Hitler in the past. 2) Then he does it again while working for them. So they fire him. 3) Then they re-hire him to report on Israel… 4) He parrots terrorist propaganda as an article, which of course turns out to be false. 5) NYTs praises him for maintaining “high journalistic standards.”
• @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: CBP reports Border Patrol arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watchlist at the southern border in September, bringing the total for FY’23 to 169, the highest year ever recorded & higher than previous 6 years - combined.
• @kylenabecker - Inside a Hamas Training Camp for Kids That Teaches Them to Kill Israelis. (video)  This is more of the "education" that U.S. taxpayers are paying for through the UNRWA at "Camp Jihad". (video)
• @DonaldTrumpJr - It was bad enough that RINO Tom Emmer had his henchmen attack Tucker Carlson's 25 year old son to the Daily Beast, but now Emmer is trying to throw the staff of another member of Congress under the bus to cover his own ass??? (Oct. 2022)
• @MattWallace888 - Should Derek Chauvin be released from prison IMMEDIATELY now that medical documents have been released PROVING he did not kill George Floyd?
• @GameofTrades_ - Buying conditions in the US housing market have rapidly deteriorated. More than 60% of consumers are saying that this is a bad time to buy a house Compared to under 10% in 2021. (graph)
• @gregg_re - Here's the George Floyd judge saying 'every case is about racial justice'. he followed through, sentencing chauvin (and all cops around him) to lengthy prison sentences even though floyd had a fatal level of fentanyl & said 'i can't breathe' before he was on the ground. (audio)
• @IGSquawk - Weekend indices update: #DAX 14789 +0.19% #DOW 33153 +0.19% #NASDAQ 14574 +0.15% #FTSE 7388 +0.23% #HANGSENG 16956 0% #EURUSD 10593.2 -0.01% #GBPUSD 12161.1 -0.03% #USDJPY 14985.1 0%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 988,705 Reports(+1,488 from prior week) Through September 29th, 2023.

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.

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Israel’s Defense Minister Gives More Details on Plans for Gaza.
• Biden Says Hamas Attack Was to Halt Israel-Saudi Arabia Thaw. 
• Fatal Attack in Brussels Prompts Resignation of Justice Minister.
• EU Says Lack of US Clarity on Tariffs Sank Trade Announcement. 
• Egypt Downgraded Deeper Into Junk by S&P on Currency Squeeze.
• Mega-Cap China Tech Bears Brunt of Deepening Foreigner Exodus.
• Stock Losses Deepen as S&P 500 Breaches Key Level: Markets Wrap. 
• Rates Selloff Seeps Through All Corners of the Credit Market.
• Summers Says Fed Will Have to Engage on Growing US Debt Pile.
• US Supreme Court Allows White House Social Media Contacts for Now.
• Tesla’s Slowing Growth Is Sending a Warning to All EV Makers.
• Nvidia Dip-Buyers Burned by US Chip Battle With China.
• Fed Flags Concerns About Inflation Pressures and Office Market.
• Emails, Wires, Katy Perry: How Sam Bankman-Fried Bought Influence.

Zero Hedge:

• Two Chicagoans Confirmed Released By Hamas, US Presses Israel To Delay Ground Invasion
• Jordan Out As Speaker Candidate After 3rd Loss.
• India Rejects Russian Demand To Pay For Oil In Chinese Yuan.
• "He Not A Terrorist": FBI Arrests Man Living In Parents' Basement For Train Derailment.
• The FDA's Ties To The Gates Foundation.
• "The Whole George Floyd Story Was A Lie": Tucker Carlson.
• Georgia Man Issued $1.4 Million Super Speeder Ticket For Doing 90 In A 55.
• "Children Are Not Social Experiments": Oklahoma Ban On Sex Changes For Minors Upheld By Federal District Court.
• Wealthy House Dem Signals He'll Challenge Biden For 2024 Nomination.
• Russia Will "Pay The Price" For Supporting Gaza: Israeli Official.
• Anheuser-Busch Resorts To 'Bribing' Distributors In Effort To Keep Bud-Light On Shelves.
• Money-Market Fund Assets Crash 'Most Since Lehman' As Bank Deposits Rose Last Week.
• House Investigators Reveal $200,000 "Direct Payment To Joe Biden".
• "No All Clear" - Bitcoin & Bullion Jump, Stocks Dump On Week As Yield-Curve Un-Inverts.
• Stocks sold while weekend haven demand softened by Hamas hostage release - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• Kunstler: The Main Question Du Jour Is...
• DOJ Says Trump Has No 'Absolute Immunity' In Jan. 6 Case.
• GM Raises Offer To UAW Ahead Of Union Boss' Bargaining Update.
• G77 Nations, China, Push Back On U.S. "Loss And Damage" Climate Fund In Days Leading Up To UN Summit.

Wall Street Journal:

• Why Hamas Atrocities Lead the Left to Hate Israel More. ‘Cognitive-dissonance reduction’ requires vilifying the victim to uphold one’s prejudices.
• Two American Hostages Released as U.S. Pressures Israel to Delay Gaza Invasion.
• The Chaotic Urban Hellscape That Awaits Israel in a Gaza Invasion.
• Gaza Fighting Risks Resurgence of Terrorist Attacks.
• Trips to Europe Will Require a New Step for U.S. Travelers.
• These Are the Two Scientists Taking Down Cold Medicines That Don’t Work.
• This Drug Could Be the Next Ozempic. Bootlegs Are Already Selling Online.
• Five Investors on Investing in the 5% World.
• Why You Might Be Drinking Too Much Without Knowing It.

CNBC:

• Dow falls nearly 300 points after 10-year Treasury yield tops 5% for the first time since 2007
• UAW says ‘more to be won’ despite record offers from automakers; declines to expand strikes.
• Tesla stock ends the week down 15%, the worst performance of the year.
• U.S. wraps up fiscal year with a budget deficit near $1.7 trillion, up 23%.
• As mortgage rates hit 8%, home ‘affordability is incredibly difficult,’ economist says.
• Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord as commercial real estate softens.
• Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX allies secretly poured $50 million into ‘dark money’ groups, evidence shows.

Reuters:

• Inflation, commercial real estate among top financial stability concerns -Fed survey.

MarketWatch.com:

• Netflix is raising prices to get you to watch ads, and it will probably work.
• S&P 500 breaks below key level for first time since March as stocks erase summer gains.
• Inflation is following an ‘eerily similar’ path as the one taken in 1966-1982.

NewsMax:

• Media That Got Gaza Hospital Story Wrong Yet to Apologize, 
• 500 Biden Democrat Staffers Signed Anti-Israel Letter.
• Rep. Comer: Joe Biden's Brother Paid Him $200K in 2018.

Fox News:

• Matt Gaetz slams lawmakers after latest speaker vote, declares Jordan 'knifed'.
• US forces face array of attacks as Biden admin increases Israel support.
• NY Times defends rehiring Gaza journalist who praised Hitler.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• BREAKING: RINOS Win! House GOP Votes IN SECRET BALLOT to Boot Jim Jordan for Speaker by Large Margin 112 to 86… Candidate Forum to be Held Monday.
• EXCLUSIVE from “POLICE STATE” the Movie: Shocking Footage of FBI Smashing in Door of NY Senior for Attending J6 Rally – VIDEO.
• Victor Reacts: Leftist Judge Threatens to JAIL Donald Trump Over Truth Social Post.
• Report: Terrorists Drugged Themselves to Commit Atrocities Against Civilians.
• Angry Palestinian Confronts CNN Reporter During Live Broadcast, Chants “F*ck CNN” and Accuses Leftist Network of Being “Genocide Supporters” (VIDEO).
• VERY SAD. Jim Jordan Speaks to Reporters after GOP Lawmakers Stab Him and Their Voters in the Back with Secret Vote to Dump Him as Speaker – The Most Popular Republican in Congress.
• Texas Secretary of State Releases Election Audit Findings, And They Are Deeply Troubling.
• EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney Caught in a Lie – His CIA-Linked Advisor Was Placed on Burisma Board While He Was Impeaching President Trump.
• BREAKING: All 8 Hero Republicans Who Voted to Remove McCarthy From Speakership Are ‘Prepared to Accept Censure, Suspension, or Removal’ From the Republican Conference in Return for Rep. Jim Jordan Being Elected Speaker (VIDEO).
• Autistic 13-Year-Old Israeli Seen in Viral ‘Harry Potter’ Photo and Grandmother Found Murdered in Gaza.
• BREAKING: Jim Jordan Loses Again! – Here are the 25 RINOS Who Betrayed the Conservative Movement and Shot Down Jordan’s Speakership Bid.
• Stunning. Anti-Jim Jordan RINO Caught Partying at the White House on Eve of the Speaker Vote (VIDEO).
• BREAKING: US Navy INTERCEPTS Rockets From Iranian-Backed Militants | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO).

The Epoch Times:

• Frustration Grows Among Chinese Nationals in Israel Over China's Lack of Evacuation Efforts.
• Chinese Homebuyers Stage Protests Nationwide

Twitter:

• @mirandadevine - 8 million illegal aliens since Biden took office, unvetted, locations unknown. Children trafficked and the government has acknowledged it’s lost track of 85,000, and probably tens of thousands more.
• @zerohedge - Literally every hedge fund is neck deep in energy shorts. What can possibly go wrong. (graph)
• @visegrad24 - Rockets were launched tonight against 2 U.S. targets in Baghdad. The Victory Base Complex & Baghdad Airport both house U.S. troops This vid shows the U.S. trying to shoot down 1 of the rockets Iran-proxies are increasingly aggressive against U.S. forces. (video)
• @kylenabecker - Inside a Hamas Training Camp for Kids That Teaches Them to Kill Israelis. (video)  This is more of the "education" that U.S. taxpayers are paying for through the UNRWA at "Camp Jihad". (video)
• @sentdefender - U.S. Troops have been Attacked in Iraq and Syria over 7 Times in the last 48 Hours and the President of the United States just made absolutely Zero Mention of the Attacks or a Response in his Address to the Nation.
• @iBankCoin4tw - FRENCH POLICE FORCED OUT OF PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE AS IT IS OVERRUN WITH PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTOOORS. (video)
• @WallStreetSilv - It is already too late. They have reached critical mass. The current governments of the EU don't want to change anything. Everything is proceeding on schedule and according to plan. They don't perceive this to be a problem. This is the plan. They will make the appropriate comments to allow people to think they are doing something, but nothing will change. (video)
• @EndWokeness - Americans are currently held hostage by Hamas and six U.S. military bases were attacked in the past 48 hours And what does Biden give us during his “historic Oval Office address”? A fundraising event for Zelenskyy and a lecture about Islamophobia (0 mention of the U.S. border or China)
• @MattWalshBlog -  How many elected Republicans have said anything about the fact that the Biden Administration just sent a man to federal prison for posting memes making fun of Democrat voters?
• @goddeketal - Never forget that, in the name of science, people were getting arrested simply for soaking up vitamin D at the beach. (pic)
  
• @VigilantFox - 10 Signs You Have a Vaccine Injury and What You Can Do About It: Insights from Top Doctors.
• @Breaking911 - POWERFUL: Columbia Professor Shai Davidai calls out universities for allowing pro-terror demonstrations on campus | "I am speaking up because I am afraid. I am 40-years-old and I was shivering to come to my own employment." (video)
• @stocktalkweekly - This new robot being tested by Amazon makes you realize how imminent the danger is to the average blue collar factory worker. (video)
• @GameofTrades_  - Warning: Credit card interest rates have spiked to 21.19% A level that has NEVER been seen since 1995. This is happening at a time when credit card debt have surpassed $1 trillion And personal interest payments has crossed above $500 billion There is only 1 word to define this: Unsustainable. (graph)

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 988,705 Reports(+1,488 from prior week) Through September 29th, 2023.

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.