Monday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Global Population Crash Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore.
• China's Slump Is One Big Cloud in Sunny Global Markets.
• Default Risk Fades in Emerging Markets as Riskiest Bonds Soar.
• Asian Stocks Fall, Yen Extends Gain Against Dollar.
• Oil Holds Decline as Investors Look Ahead to US Inflation Print.
• Traders Are on Alert for a Hotter-Than-Expected Inflation Print“.
• Bubble Angst Belied by Big-Tech Weaklings, Broader S&P 500 Gains.
• Reddit’s Planned IPO to Seek Up to $748 Million.
• Bond Traders Eye Key US Inflation Report to Game Out Next Bets.
• One of the Most Infamous Trades on Wall Street Is Roaring Back.
• Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day: Asia.
• Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.

Zero Hedge:

• "Made By China" Is Possibly The Biggest Risk To The Economy, And It Is Staring Us Right In The Face. 
• "Sleazy" Liz Cheney Loses It After Bombshell Report Claims She "Suppressed Exonerating Evidence" With J6 Committee.
• The Great Replacement Loophole: Illegal Immigrants Score 5-Year Work Benefit While "Waiting" For Deporation, Asylum.
• Rand Paul Teases Senate GOP Leader Run - Musk Says "I Would Support".
• No Borders? No America. 
• Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• David Sacks: "Biden's Big Backfire" Is Ukraine, Warns Of "Woke War III".
• Trump Eviscerates Biden Over 'Apology Tour' After Calling Illegal Alien Murderer An "Illegal".
• US Reinforces Haiti Embassy, Evacuates Some Staff In Overnight Airlift Mission.
• How Biden's Floating Pier For Gaza Paves Way To US Boots On The Ground.
• What is 'The Halving'? Explaining The Most Important Event In Bitcoin's History.
• SpaceX-Backed Flying Car Startup Gets FAA Nod.
• Watch: Crowd Roars As Trump Enters Packed UFC Arena.
• Anti-School-Choice GOPers Massacred In Texas Primary - Vouchers Enacted In Alabama.
• Biden Apologizes For Saying "Illegal" As Trump Hosts Laken Riley's Family At Rally.
• Peter Schiff: Price Controls Are Coming.
• NXXT Golf Bans Transgenders From Female Competitions.
• Tech Funds See Record Weekly Outflow, Just As "AI Chase Trade Becomes Consensus".
• Medicaid Expansion Was Supposed To Pay For Itself, Instead Hospitals Are Closing.
• What A Trip: Psychedelic Medicine Company MindMed Shares Rocket 50% After Positive Data.
• Trump Meets With Hungarian Leader Viktor Orban, Discussions Focus On Border Security.
• "Madness!": West Is Conducting "All-Out Militarization" To Defeat Russia, Serbian President Warns.
• US Proxies Fear 'Afghanistan-Style' Withdrawal From Syria.
• Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?
• Veterans Affairs Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate In Place Without Evidence.
• China Plans $27BN 'Big Fund' To Counter US' Tech War.
• COVID Showed Us Who Really Rules America.

Wall Street Journal:

• Chasing Passive Income, Americans Turn to Vending Machines.
• Bid to Pause Israel-Hamas War Falters Before Ramadan Starts. 
  
• Why Biden’s Agenda Is Filled With Old Ideas.
• GM Doesn’t Tell the Truth About EVs. If the U.S. and allies become failed states, blame their energy and climate delusions.
• Two Canals, Two Big Problems—One Global Shipping Mess.
• Surge Pricing Is Coming to More Menus Near You.
• Life at Regional and Small Banks, a Year After SVB Failed.
• Wall Street Predicted a Blockbuster. Now the Drug May Be Withdrawn.

CNBC:

• Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried.
• Pfizer is betting on cancer drugs to turn business around after Covid decline – here’s what to know.
• Japan averts technical recession as revised fourth-quarter data shows economy grew 0.4%.

Reuters:

• Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works.
• China warns overall pressure on employment yet to ease.

MarketWatch.com:

• 25 of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 appear to be better values than they were a year ago. Nvidia is one of them.
• Feds reportedly open criminal investigation into Boeing 737 Max midair blowout.
• Saudi oil giant Aramco posts $121 billion annual profit, down from 2022 record.

NewsMax:

• Sen. Tim Scott: Next Senate GOP Leader Must Be Trump Ally.

Fox News:

• IBM vice chair delivers reality check on Biden's jab at billionaires during SOTU.
• Jan. 6 committee allegedly suppressed testimony on Trump push for National Guard.
• Speaker Johnson chastises Biden for apology to Laken Riley murder suspect.
• FDNY responds to allegations witch hunt underway to ID firefighters who cheered Trump.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Schiff Says Intel Community will Sabotage Trump By Withholding Intelligence and ‘Dumbing Down’ Daily Brief (VIDEO).
• J6 Political Hostages Ryan Samsel And Jake Lang Moved To Gang Units In Same Jail System Where Esptein Was Killed: ‘The DOJ Set Them Up To Get Stabbed And Beaten’.
• Government Launches Holy War on Pastor for Home-Churching.
• Turkey’s Erdogan Says Country ‘Firmly’ Backs Hamas Terrorists, Likens Netanyahu to Hitler.
• Liberal Paradise: Calif. Woman, 96, Murdered While Preparing Cookies for Own Birthday.
• HORROR: White Female Student in Critical Condition with Brain Injury After Being Beaten by Mob Near St. Louis High School (VIDEO).
• Crime Pays in New York: Proposed Bill Would Pay Inmates $2600 After They Leave Prison.
• US Deploys Marines to American Embassy in Haiti – Non-Essential Personnel Evacuated in the Midst of Chaos in the Capital Port-Au-Prince.
• Madonna Scolds Fan for Not Standing During LA Concert Before Noticing Fan is in Wheelchair.
• Oklahoma County Republicans Officially Censure RINO Senator James Lankford Over Failed Border Security Deal.
• UFC 299 Goes Wild as Former President Trump Enters Arena — “F*ck Joe Biden” Chant Erupts in Miami (VIDEO).
• Hospital Pays Job Applicant Who Refused Mandated Flu Shot.
• Pope Francis Says Ukraine Should Surrender, Urges Zelensky to ‘Show Courage of the White Flag’.
• A Permanent Daylight Savings Is Being Pushed By U.S Senators Again.
• President Trump Spent Time with Laken Riley’s Family and Friends at Rome, Georgia Rally.
• President Trump Rips Joe Biden at Rally in Rome, Georgia: “Joe Biden Should Not be Shouting Angrily at America. America Should be Shouting Angrily at Joe Biden.” (VIDEO).

The Epoch Times:

• Hong Kong’s Property Problems Reflect Beijing’s Mismanagement.
• Hong Kong’s New National Security Bill Includes Stiff Penalties and More Power to Suppress Dissent.

X:

• @WideAwakeMedia

• Meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, utterly demolishes the “man-made climate change" narrative, in under three minutes. "There is no significant man-made global warming now, there hasn’t been any in the past and there’s no reason to expect any in the future." "The government puts out about $2.5 billion for climate research every year. It only gives that money to scientists who will produce scientific results that support the global warming hypothesis." (video)
• Not content with the damage caused by mRNA Covid "vaccines", which he admits "[do not] block you from getting infected", Bill Gates is excited about the development of mRNA vaccines for cancer, measles, tuberculosis, HIV and even animal vaccines. "[mRNA vaccines are] a treasure to the world." (video)

• @StillGray
  

• So let’s get this straight, Biden is setting up a semi-permanent port/base in Gaza that will staff over a thousand full time service members as some sort of stationary point for aid delivery and possible migration point for refugees to emigrate into the US. (video)
  

• @WendyP4545

• How many times did I warn you that the Omnibus was full of traps for Trumps presidency? According to this, Ukraine get's funding into infinity and if Trump tries to stop it, it triggers an automatic Impeachment. Vacate the damn chair
  @RepMattGaetz. (pic)

• @CraigKellyPHON

• WHAT A SCAM. Professor Norman Fenton exposes the fraud & statistical tricks used by the vaccine fanatics to falsely claim efficacy of the injections. The trick was to classify those injected within the previous 14-28 days as "unvaccinated". This way, those injured by the vaccine and report their injury 14-28 after being injected are falsely classified as "unvaccinated" - thereby hiding the cause of their injury and creating a fake impression of efficacy. Just another part of the Covid scam. (pic)

• @WallStreetApes

• Dan Bongino Put Together A Collection Of Clips Showing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton & Prominent Democrats All Openly Call Out America’s DEEPLY FLAWED Election System. Watch Democrats Commit The Same Crime, Questioning Elections, That They Relentlessly Persecuted Donald Trump For. (video)
• American Farmers Are Using The Internet To Warn Everyone That Our Food Is Being Genetically Modified By Big Food. “Did you know over 90% of the field corn grown in the US is GMO genetically modified? That's used in corn, grit meals, and all kind of processed foods”. (video)
  

• @TonyClimate

• Antarctic sea ice extent is higher today (3,165,625 km.sq.) than it was 27 years ago (3,075,000 km.sq.) (pic)

• @TheChiefNerd

• Sen. Rand Paul on Fauci’s Long History of Bioweapons Research. “One of the most alarming quotes which really tells you who Anthony Fauci is, is in 2012 he was asked about this and he says, ‘There are some risks. A pandemic could occur from these experiments but the knowledge is worth the risk.’…These are people getting paid billions of dollars and Robert Kennedy has recounted this better than anyone else, the connection to bioweapons trade.” (video)

• @VigilantFox

• The flooding of illegal immigrants into this country is intentional and being done ON PURPOSE! How can we be sure? “They’re setting up cots and community centers across the country for [illegal] immigrants, but not for people who live here, not the veteran homeless people, not the regular homeless people, not any.” So, they have tax dollars for illegal immigrants, but if you’re homeless in this country, tough luck. (video)

• @Real_RobN

• And here is, TRUMP vs. RICO why Fulton County REFUSED to VERIFY SIGNATURES. Dominion Log Files CONFIRM: Virtually all 148,000 Fulton County’s 2020 mail in ballots were forced to adjudication.

• @BehizyTweets

• BREAKING: Sheriff Dar Leaf reveals he has been investigating key players in the Michigan 2020 election including Dominion CEO John Poulos, Dominion employees and contractors, Jocelyn Benson, AG Dana Nessel, and others.

• @WallStreetSilv

• BREAKING: Haiti has descended into cannibal gangs chasing people around and taking over police station. Their Prime Minister has fled the country. (video)

• @BGatesIsaPsycho

• Agenda 2030. Want to understand what Agenda 2030 is? Then watch this. “179 different countries have signed up to this plan in which the World will develop into a totalitarian state under one Government” (video)
  

• @LibsofTiktok

• ICE just arrested this Honduran National in RI who’s wanted for m*rder and was convicted of a felony ass*ult charge. He entered our country illegally in 2021. ICE requested to detain him but the court released him because Rhode Island is a Sanctuary State. In 2014, a Democrat Governor made Rhode Island a Sanctuary State.

• @_aussie17

• From Italy 9 March, 2024 COVID, THE RECKONING. An 18-year-old dies from the vaccine: five doctors under investigation for Camilla. The Genoa Prosecutor's Office is also accusing four of them of manslaughter. (pic)
  

• @BigFish3000

• You are not allowed to investigate any aspect of the election. Sheriff speaks out about their silencing tactics in Michigan. (pic)

OpenVAERS: 

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,007,636 Reports(+4,460 from prior report) Through February 23th, 2024.

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 -1.5% to -.5% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 100.0 -1.25 basis points.
  
• China Sovereign CDS 66.25 +.25 basis point.
• China Iron Ore Spot 112.8 USD/Metric Tonne -2.1%.
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 40.1 +.02%
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 65.7 +1.1%.
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 15.9 -.3%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures -.42%.
• S&P 500 futures -.05%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures -.14%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are modestly lower, weighed down by industrial and technology shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open mixed and to weaken into the afternoon, finishing modestly lower.  The Portfolio is 50% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• China Plans to Expand Program to Cut Local Debt Risks: Caixin.
• The $1 Trillion Race to Rebuild Ukraine Is Slowly Getting Going.
• Slow US Inflation Retreat Is Set to Bolster Fed Patience on Rate Cuts.
• Debt Markets Priced for Perfection Risk a Stumble. 
• Boeing’s Largest Union Demands 40% Pay Hike as Talks Begin.
• Wall Street Week: ‘A Relatively Strong Economy’ in the US, But Not in China.
• Charting the Global Economy: ECB Holds Rates Steady While US Jobless Rate Rises.

Zero Hedge:

• "Sabotage, Shoddy Maintenance?": Questions Swirl As Aviation Incidents Spike This Week.
• Hartnett: This Ferocious Move Has Happened Just 10 Times Since 1930 And It Means One Of Two Things.
• Watch: Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret) Provides Nation With Alternative View Of The State Of The Union.
• COVID Showed Us Who Really Rules America.
• Biden Apologizes For Saying "Illegal" As Trump Hosts Laken Riley's Family At Rally.
• Harvard's "Oddities Collector" Gets Probation After Unlawful Trafficking In Human Body Parts.
• Army Intel Soldier Charged With Selling Secrets About US Weapons, Ops.
• "We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That...".
• Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country.
• The Coming Of The Police State In America.
• Denver Asks Landlords To Rent To Illegals.
• Scientists Discover Toxic Microplastics In Every Human Placenta Tested In Study.
• Enraging Dems, 'No Labels' Group Will Proceed With Bipartisan Presidential Ticket.
• Low Iron Levels In Blood Could Trigger Long COVID: Study.
• US Navy Repels "Large-Scale" Houthi Attack Of 15 Suicide Drones.
• Fewer Employers Put Education Requirements In Job Postings This Year, Indeed Says.
• A Low-Trust Society Is An Impoverished Society.
• Mexican Cartel Laughs As US National Guard Helicopter Crashes, Kills 3 On Biden's Chaotic Border.
• Corporations Are Losing The ESG Battle, Forcing Them To Hide Advocacy.
• The West's Reckoning?
• F-35A Becomes First Certified 5th-Gen Fighter To Carry Thermonuclear Gravity Bombs.
• "A Pork Fest Of Epic Proportions": Congress Passes Spending Package To Avert Shutdown.
• Boiling Hard Tap Water Removes Up To 90% Of Microplastics: Study.

Wall Street Journal:

• Why Some 20-Somethings Are Saying No to TikTok.
• Americans Don’t Care as Much About Work. And It Isn’t Just Gen Z.
• A Mistake in a Tesla and a Panicked Final Call: The Death of Angela Chao.
• Biden Push to Ease Marijuana Restrictions Sparks Tensions.
• Jamie Dimon and Ray Dalio Warned of an Economic Disaster That Never Came. What Now?
• A $400 Million Bet Says This Is the Mall of the Future.
• A Year After Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse, the Rules Are Still Catching Up.
• Is the Favorable Era for Workers Coming to an End?

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (MELI), (ACM), (XYL), (RSG) and (MEG).

CNBC:

• McDonald’s and other restaurant chains look to the Sun Belt for growth as population soars.
• New Activision QA union is the largest in the video game industry.
• DOJ opens investigation into Alaska Airlines blowout incident, WSJ says.
• Biden says he’ll ban TikTok if Congress passes bill, but he’s campaigning on it until then.

MarketWatch.com:

• The biggest wildfire in Texas history highlights cattle ranchers’ challenges — and could push beef prices higher for consumers.
• Office-to-residential conversions are facing obstacles under White House program, developers say.
• Why do many workers feel left out if the job market is still stronger than expected.
• It’s not just Nvidia: These companies are finally making real money from AI.

NewsMax:

• Trump: 'I Extend an Open Hand' to 'Disillusioned' Democrats.
• Biden: Slams Netanyahu, Says CIA Chief Trying fo Free Hostages.

Fox News:

• Trump recounts emotional meeting with Laken Riley’s family: ‘She was the best’.
• Federal court deals blow to Biden admin’s effort to redirect over $1B in border wall funding.
• Biden apologizes for calling Laken Riley’s alleged killer ‘illegal’ after botching her name.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• “They’re GOING TO STEAL The Election” …Tucker Carlson WARNS The American People | Elijah Schaffer (VIDEO). 
• Hero Governor Glenn Youngkin VETOES Democrat Bill that Would Force Virginia to Re-Enter ERIC Voter Roll Management System – Democrats in a Panic! Why Is That?
• 81 Million Vote Getter Joe Biden Draws Paltry Crowd to Atlanta Rally Held the Same Time as Trump’s Packed House Rally in Rome, Georgia.
• New Report Confirms Brad Raffensperger’s Office Committed a Crime in Jan. 2021 as The Gateway Pundit First Reported in Feb. 2023.
• OUTRAGEOUS: FDNY Firefighters Who Booed Tyrant AG Letitia James Ordered to Surrender or Risk Being Hunt Down — Will Face Punishment and Reeducation.
• REVEALED: Liz Cheney, Sham January 6 Committee Allegedly Hid Exonerating Evidence of Trump’s Authorization for National Guard During Capitol Protest.
• Mitch McConnell’s Sister-in-Law Angela Chao Made Frantic Call Before Drowning in Tesla.
• SICK: Joe Biden Says He Regrets Calling Laken Riley’s Killer an “Illegal Immigrant” — I’m Not Gonna Treat Any of These People with Disrespect” (VIDEO).
• New York City’s Metropolitan Opera Goes Woke: Adds Trigger Warning to Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” for “Appropriation”.
• Elon Musk Breaks Down How Democrats Use Illegal Immigration to Rig Elections in Their Favor.
• Criminals with Ties to MS-13 Brazenly Sell Fake IDs and Green Cards to Illegals in NYC , Officials Warn of Looming Threat.
• If Biden Is Serious About Border Security, He Must Start With Venezuela.
• Harvard Finally Drops Its COVID Vaccine Mandate, Insists People Should Still Wear Face Diapers.
• Repeal of Ranked-Choice Voting Makes Ballot in Alaska.
• Judge Clears Way for Religious Discrimination Trial Against ’20th Television’ After Actor Fired Over COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal.
• Peter Sweden: Sweden is Charging Electric Busses with DIESEL Generators.
• HUMILIATION: Dementia Joe’s SOTU Address Receives Worst Polling in Past Quarter Century.
• Weaponization of the Lesser-Known Parts of the U.S. Government.

Epoch Times:

• Ban Academic Tech Transfers to China.

X:

• @glennbeck

• As if arresting a Gold Star dad for disrupting Biden's State of the Union wasn't enough, @RepBrianMast tells me Steve Nikoui was also CHARGED with "demonstrating." Were any of the pro-Palestinian blockaders charged? Or do they get a pass because Biden needs their votes? (video)

• @wendyp4545
  

• News Flash: They are flying in 500,000 Palestinians while the Palestinians fighting for Hamas still have American Hostages after they murdered 32 Americans. Just in case you haven't received the middle finger from this administration yet today, here it is. (pic)
  

• @libsoftiktok

• SCOOP: A student at @EastCentralHS in Indiana drove to school with an American flag on the back of his truck. The school reportedly responded by threatening to punish him if he didn't remove it. After hearing what happened, nearly 2 dozen other students flew American flags on their vehicles, protesting the school's decision!  The school caved, allowing students to fly flags on their vehicles but said they won't allow students to fly American flags next school year. Why do American schools hate America? (pic)

• @JesseBWatters

• The Senate just passed a half-trillion dollar spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Primetime's pulling the pork: $880k to raise awareness for monk seals, AOC just got $500,000 for her anti-racist oyster reef, politicians are giving electric cars to people in the projects and Bernie's spending half-million to study a monument. (video)

• @NetworksManager
  

• Is This True? (video)
  

• @wideawake_media

• Fake spiritual guru and WEF "agenda contributor", Sadhguru, openly advocates depopulating the planet, going on to suggest that people should have dogs instead of children. (video)
• “New technology is working its way into old vaccine protections.” Researchers are working on converting the traditional annual flu vaccine into an mRNA-based vaccine, completely ignoring the millions of injuries and deaths reported as a result of the mRNA Covid vaccine roll-out. 
• South Korea: Families of Covid vaccine victims demand accountability from their government, for its role in mandating millions of people into taking an insufficiently tested experimental injection, resulting in thousands of deaths and severe vaccine injuries. (video)

• @MarioNawfal
  

• HOT MIC: BIDEN TOLD NETANYAHU IT'S TIME TO COME TO JESUS. BIDEN: "I told him, Bibi — don't repeat this — you and I are going to have a Come to Jesus meeting." HANDLER: "Sir, you're on a hot mic." (video)

• @VigilantFox

• Candace Owens: “This PUPPET PRESIDENCY is nothing short of infuriating for the public to have to sit here and watch.” “We know that he does not have the mental faculties to lead. And therefore, there must exist a shadow government. Right? And we want to know who that shadow government is.” (video)
  

• @WallStreetApes

• NEW US Border Footage Today: Border Patrol Said “A private company is taking all these migrants to shelters.” Men & Women Are Separated, Illegal Immigrants Overwhelmingly From China & Afghanistan. “There's a lot of people here from China. I would say half of these people are from China. It's very frightening because you're used to seeing people that are from Central South America, but they’re from China”. (video)

• @WallStreetSilv

• Former Senior Canadian Secret Intelligence Sevice Intel Officer Testified That: "We can prove every federal government from Mulroney to Trudeau is compromised". "Compromised by agents of the communist China". (video)

• @TonyClimate

• Sea level at Ratan, Sweden has been falling at the same rate for 130 years. There isn't one shred of legitimate evidence to support the idea that humans have impacted the rate of sea level rise. #ClimateScam. (graph)
  

• @VDHanson

• One Angry Biden Lie After Another. A demagogic fuming Biden gave another Phantom of the Opera speech blasting conservatives for all the destruction that he has caused and has resulted in his own historic unpopularity.

• @MJTruthUltra

• So I just learned something interesting…. Alejandro Mayorkas was a board member for HIAS… HIAS, is a Jewish American NPO Spread Across the US, Assisting Illegals Resettle into the United States. Isn’t it kind of odd that same Cuban born immigrant in charge of border security to stop illegals was on the Board of an organization that literally helps illegals resettle into the US? The locations of all these HIAS Jewish Service Agencies closely overlap where illegal immigrants live and democrats vote. (video)

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 17758 -0.04% #DOW 38743 -0.01% #NASDAQ 18015 -0.13% #FTSE 7655 +0.02% #HANGSENG 16355 -0.01% #GBPUSD 12853 -0.05% #EURUSD 10937 -0.02% #USDJPY 14705 -0.01%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,007,636 Reports(+4,460 from prior report) Through February 23th, 2024.

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:

• China’s Consumer Prices Rise for First Time Since August.
• What’s Wrong With China’s Economy? Can It Be Fixed?
• Euro Set for Best Week This Year With Fed, ECB Seen in Lockstep.
• TSMC to Win More Than $5 Billion in Grants for US Chip PlantThe Chips Act set aside a total of $39 billion in direct grants — plus financing options valued at $75 billion 
• Summers Says Fed Is ‘Wrong’ About 2.5% Neutral Interest Rate“The neutral interest rate is way above the 2.5% that the Fed likes to talk about.”.
• Congress Passes $460 Billion Funding Deal, Avoiding Shutdown The Senate voted 75 to 22 on Friday evening to approve the package.
• Powell Is Scaring No One on Wall Street as Market Gains Broaden. 
• Gold Extends Record Run With $2,200 in Sight After US Jobs Data.

Zero Hedge:

• Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Recent History: Record 1.2 Million Immigrant Jobs Added In One Month.
• Gold Star Dad Arrested After Heckling Biden Over Son's Death In Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal.
• Victor Davis Hanson: One Angry Biden Lie After Another.
• From Pioneer To Fallen Giant: How Hewlett Packard's Long List Of Failed Acquisitions Cost Its Reputation.
• DC Court Greenlights Flurry Of Jan. 6 Lawsuits Against Trump.
• You Have Got To Be Kidding Me...?
• JP Morgan Looked To Acquire Discover Before Capital One.
• Complacency - who is left to buy?
• Angry Shouting Aside, Here's What Biden Is Running On.
• Texas GOP Voters Demand End to Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments.
• Economic Earthquake Ahead? The Cracks Are Spreading Fast.
• Large US Banks Saw Over $7BN Deposit Outflows Amid NYCB Chaos Last Week.
• The Fate Of The Union.
• Stocks and bonds chop to mixed NFP, semis take a hit - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• New Record Highs For Bitcoin & Gold As Dollar Suffers Worst Week In 3 Months.
• 'Concocted Conspiracy Theory': Special Counsel Annihilates Hunter Biden's Motion To Dismiss In Scathing Response.
• Millennials Have To Work Twice As Much As Boomers Did To Pay Off College, But There's A Catch...

 Wall Street Journal:

• Some Columbia Professors Accused of Pro-Palestinian Indoctrination.
• Stop Constantly Asking Your Kids How They Feel.
• Biden’s Partisan State of Disunion. The Democratic pep rally had not a single bipartisan grace note.
• Signs of Cooling in U.S. Hiring Boom Lift Rate-Cut Hopes.
• Colorado’s Star DNA Analyst Intentionally Manipulated Data, Investigation Finds.
• Fidelity Investments Cuts About 700 Jobs This Week.

CNBC:

• Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI board of directors as investigation into his ouster comes to a close.
• Microsoft begins blocking some terms that caused its AI tool to create violent, sexual images.
• Trump and his allies want Elon Musk to speak at Republican National Convention.
• Wealthy family investing offices have tripled since 2019, creating a new gold rush on Wall Street. 
• Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts.

MarketWatch.com:

• Biden says he’ll sign proposed bill banning TikTok if Congress passes it.
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s $9 million stock sale this week may be cause for caution.

NewsMax:

• New Chair Whatley, Co-chair Trump Hail 'New Dawn' at RNC.
• Canada to Resume Funding to UNRWA. 
• UN: Israeli Settlements Amount to 'War Crime'.

Fox News:

• Multiple deaths after National Guard helicopter carrying soldiers, Border Patrol agent crashes.
• Mother of murdered Laken Riley reacts to Biden getting her daughter’s name wrong.
• Bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang sets up shop in US as border authorities sound alarm.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Vigilant Fox: Tucker Carlson, “They’re Going to STEAL the Election”.
• California US Senate Candidate Katie Porter Claims Her Election Against Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey was “Rigged”. 
• Anti-Israel Protesters Succeed in Destroying Priceless Historic Painting.
• “It’s Pathetic!” – Mom of Murdered Nursing Student Laken Riley Erupts on Callous Joe Biden After He Botches Her Daughter’s Name at State of the Union.
• The North Face Clothing Company Offers Discounts to U.K. Customers Who Take DEI Course Teaching How Outdoors is “Oppressive” Against Black People.
• Biden ‘Short Circuits’ When Confronted by Reporter for Accurately Calling Laken Riley’s Accused Killer an Illegal (Video).
• Sen. Tommy Tuberville: “Climate Change is the Biggest Hoax in the World!… I Would Say “25% of Budget” Goes to It (VIDEO).
• HAITI HELL: State of Emergency and Curfew Extended – Looted Port Is Shut, Prompting Fears of Famine – American Citizens in the Country Have No Way of Escaping.
• Secretary Mayorkas Refuses Pin to Honor Laken Riley Offered by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• JUST IN: United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 Suffers Gear Failure, Crashes Off Runway.
• THEY LIED TO YOU: New Study Finds People Who Took Ivermectin for COVID Recovered Faster – As TGP Reported Over Two Years Ago!
• AMAZING VIDEO: Dilley Team for Trump Releases “If I Were the Deep State” Spinoff of Paul Harvey’s Classic Speech on Satan’s Ambitions.
• Germany’s BILD: Is Berlin’s Political Elite Controlled by ‘Kompromat’ Blackmail?
• Former CIA Director John Brennan Says Intel Community will Withhold Key Information From Trump’s Security Briefings This Summer (VIDEO).
  

Epoch Times:

• New Study on China’s Military Prowess Paints Bleak Picture for the US.
• China Planted Mystery Devices on Cranes Used in US Ports, Could Seize Control Remotely: Congressional Letter.

X:

• @elonmusk

• Most Americans are still unaware that the census counts ALL people, including illegal immigrants, for deciding how many House seats each state gets! This results in Dem states getting roughly 20 more House seats, which is another strong incentive for them not to deport illegals.

• @glennbeck

• @PeterSchweizer tells me that “two of the biggest funders of the radical transgender movement in America are actually Chinese-based billionaires.” But they're not pushing any of this in China: "They view this as a form of WARFARE against the United States." (video)

• @FDRLST
  

• Biden Lied 30 Times During The State Of The Union.

• @laralogan

• What kind-of society covers up the rape & murder of women and girls? (video)

• @SpeechUnion

• BREAKING: FSU member and University College London (UCL) academic Michelle Shipworth has been BANNED from teaching her own course, after a Chinese student complained that discussing modern slavery in China was too "provocative".

• @The_Nomad_News
  

• TUCKER CALLS OUT Mike Johnson as part of the uniparty, and for nodding his head in agreement with Biden on Ukraine during the SOTU. (video)

• @wideawake_media

• While the West sacrifices its standard of living, economic prosperity and ability to feed and heat itself on the altar of net zero, China is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week—coal that will be used to manufacture the wind turbines, solar panels and EV batteries the West needs to pretend to be saving the planet. (video)
  

• BreakinNewz01

• 7,000+ cows have died in #Texas Panhandle #wildfires, causing a "total wipeout" for many local ranchers.

• @VigilantFox

• Uh Oh: COVID Vaccines DO Negatively Impact Menstrual Cycles “There is now a body of evidence demonstrating that the vaccine is associated with temporary menstrual cycle disturbances at the POPULATION LEVEL.” (video)
• 15 COVID “Conspiracy Theories” That Turned Out to Be True.
  

• @WallStreetApes

• WOW What An Amazing “Coincidence” The City Of Amarillo Shares Their Long-Range Plan: Vision 2045, A Smart City!! Why’s That Important? That’s Where The Texas Fires Happened…. (video)

• @WallStreetSilv

• Nobody should ever trust the CDC or take an mRNA “vaccine” ever again for anything in the future. If they are this afraid to share the data, it simply must be avoided for your own safety. (pic)

• @TonyClimate

• The @NobelPrize was awarded to @algore in 2007 for making a science fiction movie about climate. At the awards ceremony he predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014. Sea ice extent is higher now than it was in 2007. #ClimateScam. (graph)

• @ImBradySmith

• NOW: @KariLake responds to Joe Biden's State of the Union. (video)

• @ClownWorld

• Trump just posted this video on instagram. (video)

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,007,636 Reports(+4,460 from prior report) Through February 23th, 2024.

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.