Monday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• US Promises More Mideast Strikes While Trying to Avert Wider War.
• China Set to Skirt Lunar New Year Cash Crunch on PBOC Injection.
• China Vows to Stabilize Markets After Rout, Offers No Detail.
• Trump Floats Chinese Goods Tariff Exceeding 60% If Elected.
• Paris Set to Triple Parking Fees for SUV Drivers After Vote.
• Oil Rebounds as US Attacks on Houthis Ratchet Tensions Higher.
• Treasuries Extend Fall as Powell Adds to Jobs Blow: Markets Wrap.
• Powell Tells ‘60 Minutes’ Fed Is Wary of Cutting Rates Too Soon.
• Read the Full Transcript of Powell’s Interview With CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’.
• Creditor Battles Are Hobbling Risky Debt: Credit Weekly.
• Bond Market Rate-Cut Bets Rattled by Powell Pushback, Jobs.
• Harvard Names Ex-Merck CEO Frazier, KKR’s Bae to Its Board. 
• Why NYC Apartment Buildings Are on Sale Now for 50% Off.

Zero Hedge:

• Tucker Carlson Spotted In Moscow As Neocons Melt Down Over Potential Putin Interview.
• Powell Tells 60 Minutes Fed "Not Likely" To Cut In March.
• France Caves To Farmers As Ireland 'Solidarity' Protests Kick Off.
• Dark Money Group Plows Millions Into Biden Campaign.
• These Are The Most Common Types Of Cancer In The US.
• Escalation And Expansion.
• Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• Denver Starts Booting Migrants From Shelters As City Nears 'Breaking Point'.
• Scientists Warn: Declining Academic Standards Mixed With DEI Recipe For Disaster.
• Are Bankruptcies Of Some US States In The Future?
• DOE To Push Forward $1.2 Billion Biden Plan To Expand Federal College-Prep Aid To Illegal Immigrants.
• Ex-Trump Official Dies After Being Shot In Violent DC Carjacking Spree.
• The Dissatisfaction Of Young Voters.
• The Ninth Circuit: Enemy Of Cities Trying To Shut Down Homeless Camps.
• US Coalition Has Attacked Nearly 40 Houthi Sites In Yemen This Weekend.
• Trump Spent Nearly $50 Million In Legal Fees In 2023, Filings Show.
• These Were The Best- (And Worst-) Performing IPOs Of 2023.
• Warning Issued After Researchers Link Energy Drinks To Suicidal Thoughts In Children.
• A Record $10 Trillion In US Treasuries Coming To Market In 2024.
• Hartnett: The Regional Bank Crisis Is Stoking The AI Bubble Because Powell Has Become A Paper Tiger.
• Senior BBC Employee Branded White People A "Parasitical Deviant Breed".
• UK's "Online Safety Act" Officially Grants MSM Premission To Publish Lies.
• Progressive Dems In Congress Move To Block Funding For Israeli Weapons.

 Wall Street Journal:

• Power Corrupts, Absolutely. A global government to monitor AI? That sounds great to those obsessed with control. 
• ‘Shrinkflation’ Is in the Air, Online and Everywhere Else. You pay more for ‘extras’ that used to be part of the base price. The CPI doesn’t measure that.
• The Israeli Firebrand Driving Netanyahu Further to the Right.
• Border Deal to Cut Illegal Immigration Is Released After Months of Talks.
• Powell Says Fed Has New Focus: When to Cut Rates.
• Burritos and Big Macs to Cost More in California as Pay Rises.
• In the Battle Over Early Algebra, Parents Are Winning.
• Citi’s Big Turnaround Hinges on This Lagging Business.
• One Country’s Dream of EV-Driven Prosperity Helps Fuel a Coal Binge Instead.

CNBC:

• Powell insists the Fed will move slowly on interest rate cuts.
• Poll: 20-point deficit on handling economy highlights Biden’s struggles against Trump.
• Algorithms, bias and hallucinations: 20 important AI terms investors should know
• White House, Congress divide on Red Sea defense is getting dangerous for economy
• The CEO ‘return to office or else’ is having limited success in 2024
• Satya Nadella’s first decade as Microsoft CEO was defined by cloud. What’s next?
• LVMH takes aim at $30 billion watch market with high-end, reinvented pieces.

Reuters:

• Foxconn sees 'slightly better' 2024, warns on AI chip shortage.
• Wall St Week Ahead Scorching US economy throws off market's Fed cut narrative.

MarketWatch.com:

• Gold and platinum are giving strong clues that stocks could gain 15% or more this year.

NewsMax:

• US Planning More Strikes Against Iran-Backed Terrorists.
• Ric Grenell to Newsmax: 'Of Course' US Is at War With Iran.
• Iran-Backed Militia Responds: 'Every Action Elicits a Reaction'.
• Joe Lieberman: Trump 'Absolutely Got the Middle East Right'.
• Mark Morgan: U.S. 'Already Infiltrated' By Terrorists at Border.
• Rep. Kiggans: Biden Failures Brought Middle East Tension.

Fox News:

• Trump tells Maria Bartiromo what he wants in a running mate and drops two names.
• Former NFL player identifies this epidemic as America’s modern civil rights challenge.
• Elon Musk slams Biden, drops fiery take on America's border crisis.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• EVIDENCE Provided by Michigan’s Dishonest SOS Reveals HUNDREDS of Individuals Cast More Than One Vote Under Same Voter ID in 2020, 2022 and 2023 Elections—Why Hasn’t Anyone Been Prosecuted?
• George Stephanopoulos Abruptly Ends Interview with Senator JD Vance Amid Argument Over US Constitution (VIDEO).
• Union Leadership Beholden To Democrats, While Trump is Out to Save the Working Class.
• Special Agent David Lazarus Who Lied Under Oath Against the Oath Keepers During Their Trial Is Leaving the Department for Another Agency – Will Walk Free following His Confirmed Perjury in Court.
• Nikki Haley Gets ROASTED After She Runs to CNN to Celebrate Trump Criminal Trials Brought by Biden’s Corrupt DOJ (VIDEO).
• Texas Man Poses As Child to Lure Registered Sex Offender, Then Kills Him.
• TSA Rolling Out Worrying New Tech at More Than 400 Airports.
• “A Presidency in Peril”: Trump Widens Lead Over Biden in Brutal NBC Poll for Biden.
• Newly Resurrected Video of E. Jean Carroll from Her 90’s TV Show Reveals a Completely Unpredictable and Deranged Woman Obsessed with Men and Sex (VIDEO).
• Speaker Mike Johnson Drops Bomb: Biden Is Not the One in Charge.
• The Toxicology Report for the 3 Dead Chiefs Fans Is In.
• President Trump with Maria Bartiromo: “I Believe We’re Going to Have a Terrorist Attack – 100%” (VIDEO).
• The World’s First Dating Website for the UNVACCINATED is Here! Sign up For “UNJECTED” Now and Meet Other Singles That SAID NO TO THE COVID VACCINE! VIDEOS!
• Maria Bartiromo After Speaking with President Trump: “I Think There Will Be Major Changes Made in the Republican National Committee Very Soon” (Video).
• The “We the People: Take Back Our Border” Trucker Convoy and Rallies Take Place in Texas, Arizona, and California.
• California School Drops $250,000 On ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program to “Disrupt Whiteness”, Students’ Grades Dip Even Further.
• Report: Biden Regime Gave Millions of COVID Relief Funds to Undocumented Aliens.
• CNN’s Van Jones Says Young Voters Calling Biden ‘Genocide Joe’ is a ‘Big Problem for Him’ (VIDEO).
• Dr. Phil Arrives at Southern Border, Slams Biden After Realizing True Scale of the Crisis.
• Bill Maher Slams Biden for Claiming He Needs Additional Powers to Secure the Border: ‘Already Has Existing Law!’ (VIDEO). 
• Colorado Democrat Introduces ‘Pet Tax’ for All Animals and It’s Worse Than You Think.

The Epoch Times:

• CCP Punishes 6 Major Rating Agencies as China’s Stocks Plummet.

X:

• @KariLake - @Adrian_Fontes crafted Arizona's Election Procedures Manual to allow illegal immigrants to register as “federal-only” voters & cast ballots for the Presidential Election. This is what the #Bidenvasion has always been about.
• @WallStreetApes - It’s Official, Black Voters Know They’re Being Replaced With Illegal Immigrants. (video) Katie Hopkins Speaks With Nearby Hotel Owners Next To Illegal Immigrant Occupied Hotels. The Government Is Offering An Extra $300,000 Per Year On Top Of What The Hotel Would Normally Make. If They Convert Their Hotel To House Illegals Are tax payers okay with this? (video)
  
• @stkirsch - Federal agencies refuse to cooperate with Florida grand jury investigating COVID-19 vaccines, interim report reveals. So now you know: they won’t talk.
• @wendyp4545 - China's President Xi's only daughter Xi Mingze, married an American and lives here in the United States. She's a Harvard Grad who earned a bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Harvard University. She graduated in 2014 after studying psychology and English. Her profession is "Researcher" but there are no known topics or categories available of any of her research.
• @TheChiefNerd -  Absolutely Damning New Review Finds mRNA Vaccine Boosters May Impair the Immune System: ‘Signs of Reduced Immune System Response Have Been Many’.
• @robinmonotti - TWO LEADING PRINCETON, MIT SCIENTISTS SAY EPA CLIMATE REGULATIONS BASED ON A ‘HOAX’:
• @VigilantFox -  Get ready for more of your tax dollars to be wasted on a “medical disaster.” Enter Ozempic, a diabetes and weight loss drug that is “going to be the highest-funded drug by the US taxpayer in history.” Ozempic has some severe problems, according to @CalleyMeans: 1. Gastrointestinal issues and stomach paralysis:... (list)
• @Real_RobN -  +74 counties across Georgia destroyed the original Dominion ballot images from the Nov 3, 2020, what they call an election. (video)
• @PeterSweden7 - "STOP LYING". Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Sweden to protest against left-wing bias in state funded mainatream media. (video)

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,000,725 Reports(+2,808 from prior week) Through December 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 -1.0% to unch. on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 100.25 -1.75 basis points.
  
• China Sovereign CDS 64.0 -1.5 basis points.
• China Iron Ore Spot 127.9 USD/Metric Tonne +1.3%.
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 40.6 -.15%
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 59.4 +2.6%.
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 15.7 +.7%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures -.13%.
• S&P 500 futures -.24%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures -.27%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly lower, weighed down by financial and technology shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open modestly lower and to rally into the afternoon, finishing mixed.  The Portfolio is 75% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• US, UK Hit Dozens of Houthi Sites in Bid to End Ship Attacks
• China’s Angry Investors Skirt Censors With Replies to US Embassy.
• How Iran-Backed Groups Provoke Widening Mideast Conflict.
• From Green Hype to Bailouts, the Nickel Industry Has Imploded.
• Pharma’s Weight-Loss Bonanza.
• Skittish Investors Pull the Rug Out From Under Pricey US IPOs.
• US Economy Outstrips Even the Goldilocks Case: Wall Street Week.
• Stock Market Euphoria, Steel Deal Headaches: Saturday US Briefing.

Zero Hedge:

• Hartnett: The Regional Bank Crisis Is Stoking The AI Bubble Because Powell Has Become A Paper Tiger.
• "Tax Relief Act" Exposed: Something Ominous Lurks Inside... The only individual tax cut in the bill is a slight cost-of-living adjustment to the child tax credit – likely from $2,000 to $2,100 – that would apply to taxpayers’ 2025 and 2026 tax filings before expiring. The bulk – 91.5% to be exact – of what is being described as “middle-class tax relief” is, in fact, an expansion of welfare benefits.
• Ukraine Drone Reaches Deep Into Russian Territory, Damaging One Of Its Largest Refineries.
• Joe Rogan Has Shattered The Media Monolith.
• House GOP Propose $17.6B For Israel, With No Offsetting Cuts To IRS.
• Is A Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan Imminent?
• "Maybe Trump Is The Answer": Rapper 50 Cent Responds To NYC's $53M 'Cash For Migrants' Program.
• Globalists Will Use Carbon Controls To Stop You From Growing Your Own Food.
• Freedom Convoy Arrives At US Southern Border While Biden Drops Bombs In Middle East.
• Goldman's Hedge Fund Honcho Warns "Price Action Was Reminiscent Of The Late '90s".
• RNC Reports Worst Fundraising Year In A Decade.
• US Strikes Killed At Least 39, Including "Many Civilians," As Iraq Warns Stability Is On "Brink Of The Abyss".
• California Bill Would Give Unemployment Benefits To Illegal Immigrants.
• Visualizing Past Interest-Rate-Cut Cycles & 2024 Forecasts.
• Will The Fed Elect Biden?
• Washington State Democrats: Using Ammo A 'Privilege' That Needs To Be Taxed.
• Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Recent History.
• 8 Signs That Demonstrate How Truly Bizarre Our Society Is Becoming.
• German President Compares AfD Supporters To "Rats".
• Is 'World War 3' Really On The Horizon?
• TME Weekend: There’s room to add more to exposure.
• If you see a bubble, ride it.
• Equity Is Justice, Redefined.
• The Sprawling Radio Network That China's Firewall Can't Stop.
• Food Inflation Is Not Yet Dead.
• World Watch-List Sheds Light On Global Christian Persecution. 
• Scientific Alarmism Drives DoD Climate Policy.
• China Poised To Take Further Control Of Iraq's Key Southern Oil Assets. 
• East Palestine, Ohio Water Still Contaminated As Biden Prepares Victory Lap.
  

Wall Street Journal:

• U.S. Leads Strikes on Houthis, Warns of More Reprisals Against Iranian Forces, Allies
• House Plans Israel Vote, Snubs Senate’s Broader Aid Plan
• Invest in America, Live in Europe—a Mantra Some Can’t Shake.
• The Hottest Beer in America Doesn't Have Alcohol.
• The Pope’s Inquisitor Riles Conservatives. Some Call Him a Heretic.
• Are Ultra-Processed Foods Fattening? They Are for Company Profits.
• A Train Derailment Scarred One Ohio Town. Little Changed in the Railroad Industry. 

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (TDG), (CHEF) and (FTAI).
• Had bearish commentary on (BA).

CNBC:

• Activist Bluebell believes BP is 50% undervalued compared to peers.
• House Speaker Johnson announces ‘standalone’ Israel funding package.
• Tech’s longtime highfliers are growing up by getting smaller.
• These ETFs could help investors reduce Big Tech exposure.

Reuters:

• Vision Pro headset is Apple's next Mac and TV combined.

MarketWatch.com:

• 1987 stock-market crash has lessons for traders convinced Fed will slash rates in 2024.

NewsMax:

• Fmr US Intel Chief for Iran: Isolate Tehran; Close to Nuclear Weapon.
• Iran-Backed Militia Hints at De-escalation: 'Every Action Elicits a Reaction'.
• Rep. McCormick to Newsmax: Iran Had Too Much Warning.
• Resurgent Hamas Deploys Police, Funds in Areas IDF Has Left.

Fox News:

• Washington diverted $340M in federal COVID funds to illegal immigrants via $1,000 checks.
• Trump-hating comic says voting for him 'on the table' after migrant cop attack.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• RESIGN! Soros-Funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Issues Public Statement Following the Release of Illegal Immigrants Who Brutally Attacked NYPD Cops — Claims Insufficient Evidence Despite Video Footage (VIDEO). 
• UPDATE: Former Trump Administration Official Mike Gill Dies Following Washington D.C. Carjacking Shooting.
• Peter Sweden: WOAH-Bill Gates Invested MILLIONS in BioNTech JUST BEFORE Covid.
• Biden Skips Super Bowl Interview for Second Year in a Row.
• Leo Hohmann: Biden Regime Expanding Intrusive Facial Recognition Scans to All 430 ‘Federalized’ Airports.
• EXCLUSIVE: Delaware GOP Chair Julianne Murray Declares President Trump Will Win Biden’s Home State After She Won Lawsuit Banning Unconstitutional No-Excuse Mail-In Ballots. 
• Illinois: ‘Welcoming’ Programs Increase Cost of Illegal Immigration By at Least $2.2 Billion.
• How The Biden Regime Is Using The Taylor Swift Op To Foment A Cultural Color Revolution To Undermine The 2024 Election.
• Vigilant Fox: Former Pharma Insider Unveils Big Pharma’s ‘Open Secret’.
• 50 Cent Hints He Will Support Trump Following New York’s $53 Million Pre-Paid Credit Card Initiative for Illegal Immigrants.
• “Take our Borders Back” Trucker Convoy Arrives at U.S.-Mexico Border Amid Calls for Stronger Security Measures (VIDEO).
• Supreme Court Declines to Block West Point’s Race-Based Admissions Program That Discriminates Against Whites.
• TWO POLANDS: Farmers From ‘Solidarity’ Union Call For General Strike, Blockage of Ukraine Border – Globalist PM Tusk Bows to Brussels and Failed Climate Policies.
• East Palestine Doctor Reports on Local Ailments Since 2023 Toxic Explosion: “Rashes Headaches, I myself Suffered Welts, Diarrhea – Benzene and Vinyl Chloride Metabolites in Their Blood” (VIDEO).
• JUST-IN: PragerU Joins Forces With Arizona Department of Education to Bring Free K-12 Supplemental Educational Resources to Classrooms Throughout The State to Fight Back Against DEI, CRT, and Woke Sexual Material.
• Jim Hoft with Grant Stinchfield: How the Democrats Are Ramping Up their 2020 Election ‘Dirty Tricks’ in 2024 – Republicans Better Wake Up! (VIDEO).
• Biden Accuser Tara Reade Reveals How the FBI Targeted Her as a Russian Asset After She Spoke Out about the Sexual Assault by Joe Biden.
• Indiana Schools Are Installing “Translation Stations” for Students Who Don’t Understand English.
• POLL: Fewer Than Four in 10 Registered Voters Think Joe Biden Deserves to be Reelected – Worst Numbers in 32 Years.
• Elon Musk Weighs in on Biden Strategy: Get as Many Illegals into Country as Possible – Create Permanent Majority – A One-Party State.

Epoch Times:

• Latest Data Show CCP Local Government Debts Reach Record High.

X:

• @WallStreetSilv - "44% of all single family home purchases in 2023 were by private equity firms" "AKA: BlackRock" "They are creating a world where ownership is impossible" "You want to know why you can't buy a house? Because they are being bought up by BlackRock" "They're trying to destroy the family structure". (video)
• @WallStreetApes - Democrat Run Oakland Is Seeing Basically Every Major Business Leave. Residents Say There Are No Jobs Due To This, However Residents Admit Oakland Is So Rough Businesses Can’t Operate Due To The High Crime Activity - Starbucks Gone - Walmart Gone - T-Mobile Gone - In-N-Out Gone - Dunkin' Donuts Gone - Raising Cane's Gone - Chipotle Gone - Paddock Gone - Many More Businesses Gone... (video) UPDATE On Bill H.R. 6981 Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024 The US Government Making It Illegal To Fight Back Against Tyranny. It Only Takes 3 People “Training to function in public in combat” To Be Guilty. (video) New York Governor Kathy Hochul Says Send More Illegal Immigrants To New York, She’s Ready To Give Illegals Some Of The Best Jobs In The City. New York Civil Service Commission Is Working To Make It Easier To Give Illegals Jobs With The State. (video) This Isn’t A Third World Country, An Apocalypse Didn’t Happen, A Nuclear Warhead Didn’t Detonate…. This Is Democrat Run Oakland, California. (video)
• @bambkb - The global cO2 levels are 0.04%. We were at 0.03% for the longest time and just got it up to 0.04%. At 0.02%, ALL plant life DIES and an ICE AGE will commence!!!! So, WHY are we trying to reduce the Carbon again? Let me tell you why : NET ZERO is a depopulation AGENDA!!! (video)
• @EvaVlaar - The farmers of Europe are in the vanguard of the battle for freedom against an ever more tyrannical globalist establishment. Support them. Because if they fall, we all fall. (video)
  
• @BillboardChris -  To all of the lying media and left-wing political parties who say children will die if we don’t transition them. Suicides go up after transition. Way up. 20 times higher than their peers with similar mental health issues, and 40 times higher than the general population.
• @CollinRugg - NEW: Dr. Phil is at the Southern Border blasting Kamala Harris and speaking out against the Biden Border Crisis calling it a "humanitarian crisis unlike anything we've seen before." You know it's bad when Dr. Phil is involved. (video)
• @LeadingReport - BREAKING: MSNBC hosts an interview at a black barbershop, and it doesn’t go as expected: “We’re broke with Biden… we weren’t with Trump… With Trump, we had money”. (video) BREAKING: FBI and DOJ were made aware of election fraud being committed in Detroit, Michigan, during the 2020 election, according to documents from a FOIA request.
• @bennyjohnson - NYC Police Benevolent Association President on illegals who attacked NYPD cops: “Why aren’t they in jail right now? They brutally attacked a NYC police officer and lieutenant. Our criminal justice system is upside down! It fails every day.” (video)
• @PeterSweden7 - The Irish farmers have joined the protests. "I'm out here to support French farmers...the whole farming community are being decimated by...the green agenda". (video) WOAH. The Dutch farmers and truckers have joined to BLOCKADE the border crossing with Belgium. (video)
• @VigilantFox - Holy cow! Angry Italian farmers have joined their European counterparts in protest against climate tyranny, which has spread across the country for several days. (video) ED DOWD: “Safe and Effective” Is the Biggest Fraud of Our Lifetime “And it’s unwinding,” he says. “All you have to do is look at the Pfizer stock price – look at the Moderna stock price, and they are hitting new lows every day.” (video)
• @BGatesIsaPsycho - When the ‘Authority’ start using Water Cannons & Rubber Bullets on the people that work tirelessly around the clock to feed us you know society has a major problem. (video)
• @WideAwake_media - In 1991, shortly after the collapse of communism, a globalist think-tank called the 'Club of Rome' released a document titled 'The First Global Revolution', in which they declared "global warming" as the new pretext to wage war on humanity, under the guise of "saving the planet"—as detailed in a must-watch new documentary titled 'No Farmers, No Food: Will You Eat The Bugs?' (video) "Only the billionaires will be able to afford to buy food, and all the other people will die." Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore, on the genocidal consequences of the war on farmers, being waged under the banner of Agenda 2030/Net Zero. (video)
  
• @charliekirk11 - Greg Gutfeld GOES OFF and perfectly expresses how millions of Americans feel right now: (video)
• @IGSquawk - Weekend markets update: #DAX 16903 +0.01% #DOW 38565 -0.04% #NASDAQ 17578 +0.01% #FTSE 7616 -0.02% #HANGSENG 15325 -0.37% #EURUSD 10791.2 +0.04% #GBPUSD 12632.8 +0.00% #USDJPY 14834.6 -0.01%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,000,725 Reports(+2,808 from prior last report) Through December 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:

• US Hits Iranian Militias in Syria, Iraq With Wave of Strikes.
• China Gloom Spurs Record $2 Billion Rush Into Foreign Stock ETFs.
• How Global Shippers Are Dealing With a Worsening Red Sea Crisis.
• The Most Popular Man in Ukraine Has Become a Problem for Zelenskiy.
• China Stocks Swing Wildly in Chaotic End to Worst Week in Years.
• Summers Warns of Interest Rates Well Above 3% Through 2030.
• Biden’s Natural Gas Export Freeze Draws Fire From Moderate Democrats.
• Bezos Discloses Plan to Sell Up to 50 Million Amazon Shares as Stock Surges.
• Meta’s $197 Billion Surge Is Biggest in Stock-Market History.
• Supreme Court Lets West Point Keep Using Race in Admissions.
• Fed’s Goolsbee Says He Wants to See More Inflation Progress.

Zero Hedge:

• US Strikes At Least 85 Targets In Iraq & Syria, Including From B1 Bombers.
• Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Recent History.
• War Delirium.
• Jan. 6 Defendant Sentenced To 24 Months' Probation With 30 Days Home Detention.
• Democrat Governor Sounds Like Republicans: Close The Southern Border Mr. President.
• More Than 500 Arrested In California Human Trafficking Operation.
• Nikki No! Haley Busted Trying To Pass Off Unsent Email As 'Kind Words'.
• Biden Administration Wants To Force Foster Parents To Sign LGBTQ Pledge.
• Upside panic.
• The New Gold Rush - The American Border.
• US Banks See Massive Deposit Flight (Biggest Since SVB) As Fed Ends BTFP 'Arb'.
• Yields and Dollar soar after forecast-smashing jobs report - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• They Don't Want A Nation Of Critical Thinkers.
• Fani Opens Up: Admits To Relationship With Dude She Hired To Get Trump.
• Mega-Cap Tech Melts-Up Moar Despite Powell Punch-In-The-Face & Regional Bank Rout.

Wall Street Journal:

• U.S. Targets Iran’s Forces and Allies in Syria and Iraq.
• Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up to $250 Million.
• A U.N. Agency Is Accused of Links to Hamas. The Clues Were There All Along.
• The Hottest New Bedtime for 20-Somethings Is 9 p.m.
• America’s New Cable-TV King Almost Gave Up on Television.
• It’s Time to Talk to Your Kid About Sexting.
• Colleges Dropped the SAT and ACT. High Schools Didn’t.

CNBC:

• Fourth-quarter earnings are shaping up to be the best of 2023, but there’s a catch.
• Tech execs are telling investors they have to spend money to make money on AI.
• S&P 500 closes at a record, rises for a fourth-straight week on strong tech earnings.
• Apple’s Vision Pro virtual reality headset launches in U.S.

MarketWatch.com:

• Goldman Sachs management committee is getting an overhaul: WSJ.
• Mark Zuckerberg could pay millions to the IRS on Meta dividends. He still might be getting ‘a major break’.
• Fed is ‘not yet at that point’ of lowering interest rates, Bowman says.
• Pimco expects only 75 basis points of Fed rate cuts this year after strong jobs report.
• Wall Street’s biggest bear is leaving Morgan Stanley’s investment committee. What he’s gotten right, and wrong, about the stock market. 
• Nvidia is ‘clear beneficiary’ of Meta’s AI spending rush. Its stock is climbing. 
• Google parent Alphabet took a $1.2 billion hit to exit office space last quarter — news that flew under the radar in a hectic week, says Barclays. 
• Layoff fears are gripping U.S. workers. Is their anxiety warranted? 
• Gasoline prices are rising, but a bigger uptrend is set for later this month.

NewsMax:

• Blaine Holt: Things May Get 'Far Worse' in Mideast.
• Hamas Appears to Rule Out Key Peace Deal Provisions.
• Israeli Defense Minister: Two-Thirds of Hamas Taken Out.

Fox News:

• Federal judge announces Trump Jan. 6 trial in DC delayed indefinitely.
• Migrants who ganged up on police, fled NYC may have received a taxpayer-funded gift.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• WATCH: Female CNN Anchor is Left Speechless After Law Enforcement Analyst Explains Why Illegal Aliens Don’t Stay and Commit Crimes in Florida.
• BREAKING: FOIA Documents Reveal Government Officials Notified of Election Fraud in Michigan Following Election Day in 2020.
• Flashback: Ilhan Omar’s Father was Top Propaganda Official in Genocidal Somalian Barre Regime – Then He Changed His and Her Name and Entered US Illegally.
• America Last: NYC Launches $53 Million Pilot Program to Provide Pre-Paid Credit Cards to Illegal Aliens — Family of Four Will Receive $1,000 Per Month.
• Victor Reacts: Fools Love Affair, Fani Willis and Head Prosecutor Admit to Sexual Relationship (VIDEO).
• WATCH: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Repeatedly Refuses to Answer Questions on Why Illegal Aliens Who Brutally Attacked NYPD Officers Were Released.
• Nikki Haley Called Out for Allegedly Sharing Fake Fan Mail on X/Twitter Addressed to Herself — Social Media Roasts Her.
• Resident Shows Off Disturbing Secret of East Palestine Creeks Ahead of Biden Visit: ‘They’re Lying to You’.
• Report: Biden Signs Off On Operation Ground Hog — Bombing Meaningless “Targets” In Syria And Iraq.
• Is the Bureau of Labor Statistics Cooking the Books for Joe Biden to Help His Campaign… Like They Did with Obama?
• Breaking: Unscrupulous Fulton County DA Fani Willis Subpoenaed by House Republicans.
• Shameless Joe Biden Blasts Grocery Stores for “Ripping People Off” and Vows to Pressure Them on Pricing During Speech in South Carolina – Conservative Social Media Users Respond with Fire (VIDEO).
• Speaker Johnson Releases List of 64 Biden Policy Decisions That Undermined Border Security.
• Canadian Province of Alberta Bars Children From Sex-Change Surgeries, Puberty Blockers – Bans Transgender From Girls’ Sports – Trudeau’s Liberals and the MSM Outraged!
• SICK: Long Island Third-Grade Teacher Faces Accusations of Sexual Assault on Former Students, 56 Victims Have Stepped Forward So Far.

Epoch Times:

• Chinese Regime Releases Fraudulent GDP Growth Figures Amid Economic Decline: Experts.
• Lawmaker Urges State Department to Make Forced Organ Harvesting Part of US–China Talks.

X:

• @WeGotIt2K - Yuri Besmenov : Warns About Socialism and Explains. He describes how even in 1984, American had fully incorporated these principles, and that it was a matter of time before the right circumstances, and the right crisis, would trigger the turning point, and America would be completely engulfed by a communist-style governance. Communism's primary goal is to destroy nationalism, and install a global governance. (video)
• @WallStreetSilv - The Senate border deal negotiated by RINO Sen Lankford actually makes the problem worse. It writes into law that almost 2 million fake refugees per year will cross the border. It also fully funds Biden’s ability to fund their free hotels, free food, free phones and welfare benefits for millions of fake refugees. 
• @WallStreetApes - American Sheriff Who Exposed Illegal Immigrants Receiving Cell Phones, Plane Tickets, Cash etc Says The Media Attacked Him & Accused Him Of Putting Out False Information. Now He’s Back With Receipts & PROOF The United Nations Is Funding The Illegal Immigrant Invasion & Providing Exactly What He Originally Exposed. (video) Woman Reveals Company Secret Now That She Left The Company. Baby Diapers Absorbing Agents Are Filled With Carcinogens. Employees Have To Be Fit Tested For Respirators “Because the material they're putting in diapers causes cancer.” (video)
• @BehizyTweets - BREAKING: The Georgia Senate Ethics Committee is now pursuing the complete elimination of QR Codes on ballots after the BOMBSHELL Halderman report revealed hackers could flip votes without leaving a single trace by simply manipulating the QR code.
• @greg_price11 - On the left is an illegal alien who beat the crap out of an NYPD officer. He was released from jail without bail. On the right is a father of 11 children who was arrested for praying outside an abortion mill. He was just convicted in federal court and faces 11 years in jail. (pic)
• @libsoftiktok - MA Gov & Boston Mayor turned a recreational center in a predominantly black area into a facility to house illegals. A coach said his program is one of the few stable times in some of these kids’ lives. These dems took away opportunities for black children. (video)
• @TuckerCarlson - Ep. 71 Bret Weinstein traveled to the Darien Gap to understand who's behind the invasion of our country. His conclusion: “it's not a friendly migration.” (video)
• @bambkb - This poor nurse lost her job because she was asking “who is going to report this Myocarditis in these children to #VAERS ?” Also, “there was an unspoken rule in our unit, you were NOT to talk about #Covid #Vaccine injuries”. (video)
• @EvaVlaar - Listen to this brave Dutch farmer as he warns the political establishment: “We are done talking. We’re done with these fake problems created by you politicans. You are trying to destroy farmers all over Europe, but just like the farmers in Brussels today, we will fight back!” (video) BREAKING | As the farmers are fighting for their livelihoods and our freedom outside of the European Parliament in Brussels, the Eurocrats just agreed to send another 50 billion euro to Ukraine. They laugh at us. They despise us. They hate us. (video)
• @KanekoaTheGreat - Judge Kathaleen McCormick rescinded Elon Musk's $55 billion Tesla compensation package, overturning the company's board and 80% of its shareholders. McCormick also ruled against @elonmusk during his Twitter acquisition. Before becoming the head of the Delaware Chancery Court, McCormick worked at a Delaware law firm called Young Conaway. This firm and its employees have been major donors to President Joe Biden for decades. (video) NEW - House Speaker Mike Johnson delivers first floor speech on border catastrophe, accusing President Biden of intentionally creating a "clear and present danger to our national security." (video)
• @bennyjohnson - Black Boston resident rages in RED-PILL moment on LIVE TV over illegal migrant crisis after town's rec center turned into MIGRANT SHELTER: "Now, it's going to destroy our community more and mess our children up more! This is sad... Why don't they help the people here FIRST?!" (video)
• @wideawake_media - "If the government can do that to you, we are living in feudal serfdom." Robert F. Kennedy Jr: The Canadian trucker protests perfectly demonstrated why CBDC must be resisted as if our lives depend on it. "They were simply dissenting from government policies that they had a right to dissent from. The government didn't like that, and so it was ready to literally starve them to death." (video) Croatian MEP, Mislav Kolakušić, to the EU parliament: The EU is using the #ClimateScam as a pretext to seize agricultural land from farmers, with the ultimate goal of creating deliberate food shortages. Remember, starving and desperate people are a lot more likely to comply with tyranny, in exchange for enough calories to avoid death, than people with easy access to garydan abundance of food, even if the source of those calories is insects—or fake, lab-grown "meat". (video)
• @BGatesIsaPsycho - Farmer Reinforcements en Route to Rennes. The Globalists can’t stop this populist movement. Support the Farmers. (video)
• @JimFergusonUK - Police officers who know the Farmers are right and are not the enemy. When the Police and security forces side with the farmers and the people its game over for the Globalists. Globalism is the enemy of humanity....the enemy of the Police too :) Hold The Line. (video) The facade that the globalists are all powerful is crumbling. As thousands of farmers backed up by heavy tractors surround the EU building in Brussels this is a reminder of what people power can do. If the globalists try to get heavy handed with the protestors the entire country could erupt and governments could collapse. (video)
• @nicksortor - Spent my entire morning here on Maui helping my friend load all his belongings into a shipping container because he’s being FORCED to move off the island. He lost his business due to the fires and has received ZERO AID from any government. He was totally abandoned. There are countless stories like his. It’s really sad to see.
• @VigilantFox - Holy smokes. Suspicions confirmed. Former Pharma insider tells Tucker Carlson that the true goal of pharma ads on TV is not to sell drugs but to BUY OFF the news media. This is described as an "open secret" within the pharmaceutical industry. (video)

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,000,725 Reports(+2,808 from prior last report) Through December 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.