Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:           

• Taliban Say They Won’t Work With U.S. to Contain Islamic State.  
• China’s Xi Renews Appeal to Taiwan Amid Pressure Campaign.
• Energy Crisis Pushes Serbia to Keep Coal Power, President Says.  
• BOE’s Bailey Warns of Potentially Damaging U.K. Inflation.  
• ECB’s Villeroy Says Inflation to Fall Below 2% by End-2022. 
• Central Bankers Are Spooked by Signs That Inflation Is Lingering for Longer.
• Vaccine Mandates Hit Amid Historic Health-Care Staff Shortage.  
• Profit Panacea Is Badly Needed in This Stressed-Out Stock Market.  
• Child-Care Crisis Keeps U.S. Women Out of Workforce for Longer.  
• Charting the Global Economy: Inflation Builds; Jobs Miss in U.S.

Wall Street Journal:  

• Ship Crews Abandoned in Record Numbers.
• Sharp Rise Brings Treasury Yields Near Spring Highs.
• Justice Department Makes Quiet Push on Antitrust Enforcement.
• These Cities (and Small Towns) Are Luring Remote Workers With Perks.
  
• The Entitlements of U.S. Decline.  
• Bill de Blasio’s Parting Gift.  
• Who Wants to Stay on the West Coast?
• Apple Veteran’s Next Act Is Taking Home-Delivery Startup Public.
• How to Move More Goods Through America’s Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains.
• Digital Payments Are Convenient. They Also Can Wreak Havoc on Your Finances.
• Mexican Officials Detain 652 Migrants in Trucks Near U.S. Border.  
• Merrick Garland’s Federal Offense.

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (GOOG), (AMZN), (AAPL), (MSFT), (FB), (GTN) and (PRU).

CNBC:

• China presses U.S. to cancel tariffs in test of bilateral engagement.
• Facebook’s outage has people rethinking how they make money online.
• Stick to broad commodities exposure amid China’s power crunch, market analyst says.
• China proposes adding cryptocurrency mining to ‘negative list’ of industries.
• Natural gas prices are skyrocketing around the world. Here’s why the U.S. may not suffer as much.

MarketWatch.com:                

• Will bank stocks’ wild rally continue? Here are the numbers to watch in next week’s earnings results.
  
• Is the stock market open on Columbus Day? Yes! But the bond market isn’t—Here’s why  
• Weekend reads: Could the IRS monitor your bank account?  
• Opinion: Buying bitcoin or any other crypto is a leap of faith and you don’t want to be the ‘greater fool’.

Forbes:

• $200-Per-Ton Coal And Soaring Use Of Oil For Power Are Proving ‘The Iron Law Of Electricity’.

Fortune:

• Energy crisis is turning even ‘net zero’ countries back to coal—and prices are hitting record highs.

NDTV:

• Blackout Warning For Delhi If Coal Supply Not Restored In 2 Days. Over half of India's 135 coal-fired power plants, which in total supply around 70 per cent of the country's electricity, have fuel stocks of less than three days.

Medical Xpress:

• Iceland halts Moderna jabs over heart-inflammation fears. This decision owed to "the increased incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with the Moderna vaccine, as well as with vaccination using Pfizer/BioNTech," the chief epidemiologist said in a statement. Since Thursday, Sweden and Finland have also suspended the use of the Moderna vaccine but only for those under 30, because of a risk of inflammation of the myocardium, the heart muscle, and the pericardium, the membrane covering the heart. Denmark and Norway have formally advised against it for those under 18.

Fox News:  

• WATCH: Suspected cartel thugs fire shots into US as Biden's crisis at the border escalates.
• Hunter's work sells for big bucks at LA art show as ethical questions loom.
• Team Biden, if you want better jobs numbers, stop discouraging work. (video) Encouraging people not to work isn’t just bad for the economy, it’s bad for them.
• Lawmakers sound alarm as Biden raises eyebrows with 'steady progress' remark after ugly jobs report. 
• Maria Bartiromo says new jobs report 'not good' for Biden admin: Creating a 'welfare state'.

Newsmax:   

• Rep.Van Duyne: Dems ‘Spending Like Drunk Sailors’.
• Rep. Cammack: 'Sick' of Weak GOP Leadership as Democrats Run 'Lawless'.
• China's Xi Vows 'Reunification' With Taiwan.   
• Alan Dershowitz: AG Garland 'Over the Line,' Chilling Speech.
• Gov. Ricketts: Administration's Inaction Driving Border Crisis. 

Our World in Data:

• Singapore is seeing the number of COVID-19 patients in it's ICUs hit record levels despite the 4th best vaccination rate in the world(80.8% fully vaxxed).

Zero Hedge:   

• Why The Swiss Electorate Put The Brakes On Climate Policy. 
• "So Deeply, Deeply Wrong" - Lithuanian Without Vaccine Pass Describes Life Under Medical Tyranny.
• Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days.
• Breakfast Inflation Strikes As Oat Prices Hit Record Highs.
• Furious School Parents Will Not Be Silenced - Doesn't AG Garland Have Better Things To Do?
• Southwest Pilots Union Sues To Block Airline's Vaccination Mandate.
• US Heating Oil Supplies Lowest In Decades Ahead Of Winter.
• "Catastrophic" Property Sales Mean China's Worst Case Scenario Is Now In Play.
• Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days.
• Life's A Beach Until The Tsunami Hits: Four Waves Nobody Cares About...Yet.
• The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years.
• Financial Times Says Europeans Should "Prepare For Demographic Replenishment By Arabs And Asians".
• A Message To Fauci: You Are In No Position To Dictate The "Greater Good".
• Aussie Freedom Blogger Arrested At Home For Alleged 'Breach Of Public Health Act'.
• Over 1,000 Crew Members Are Stranded On 'Abandoned' Cargo Ships Globally Without Pay Or Food.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• COVID-19 Infection Rates Soar in Singapore Despite the Country Having One of Highest Vaccination Rates in the World at 83%. 
• Twitter Censors Thread From Entrepreneur Who Regrets Taking the Vaccine After Serious Side Effects.
• California Becomes the First State that Requires High School Students to Pass a CRT-Based “Ethnic Studies” Course in Order to Graduate; New Law will Also Apply to Charter Schools.
• Google to Ban Ads Containing ‘Climate Change Denial’.
• WOW: 871 Los Angeles Firefighters to File $1.7 Billion Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandate (VIDEO).
• AG Garland’s Son-In-Law’s Company ‘Panorama’ Also Pushes CRT in Texas and Georgia, and a Deceitful Article Equating MAGA to the KKK.
• Twitter Censors Thread From Entrepreneur Who Regrets Taking the Vaccine After Serious Side Effects.
• Newsom Admits 12-Year-Old Daughter Has Not Yet Been Vaccinated Despite K-12 Vaccine Mandate for Rest of State.
• Just In: Biden’s DHS CANCELS All Remaining Border Wall Contracts in 2 Overwhelmed Sectors; Calls on Congress to Fund “Smarter” Border Security As Unprecedented Numbers of Illegals Continue Pouring Across Areas With NO WALL.
• Biden’s Border Crisis Pops Off: Cartel Fires Machine Gun Over Border Patrol Tower After Days of Threats Against Agents by Armed Gangs in Tac Vests; “We Should Just Shoot You Soldiers” – (Video).

The Epoch Times:

• China Controls the World’s Critical Minerals Supply Chains.
• China Presses US to Cancel Tariffs in Virtual Meeting.

Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):

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