Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:          

• German, French Diplomats Plan Feb. 7 Kyiv Visit: Ukraine Update.  
• China Summons AstraZeneca Over Probe in Altered Test Results.
• Taiwan’s VP Holds Call With Pelosi in Bid to Bolster U.S. Ties.  
• India to Boost Spending With Near-Record Debt: Budget Preview.
• Trucker Vaccine Rule Brings Polarizing Protest to Canada’s Capital.  
• Italy’s Economy Probably Expanded 6.5% in 2021, Minister Says.
  
• Surging Fertilizer Prices Set to Exacerbate African Food Crisis.
• Threat of 50 Basis Points Is New World for 21st Century Traders.
  
• Goldman Sachs Predicts Fed Will Raise Rates Five Times This Year.  
• Commodities’ Dizzying Week Amid Fed, Nor’Easter in Five Charts.
  
• Charting Global Economy: Inflation Data Underscore Fed Urgency.
• Crypto Slide Puts Outlook of a Billion Investors by 2023 to Test.  
• Netflix Co-CEO Hastings Buys $20 Million of Shares After Drop.  
• Airlines Anxiously Await Road Warrior Return to Office and Air. 
• Quantitative Tightening Looms For Markets as Fed Turns Hawkish.  
• Bond Market Girds for Bumpy Road as Powell Shreds Fed Playbook.   
• AlphaTrAI Quant Says Risk-Parity Old Guards Are About to Suffer.  
• Europe’s Big Two to Deepen Split on Inflation Response: Eco Week. 
• Walgreens Is Said to Kick Off Boots Sale as Sycamore Joins Fray.

Wall Street Journal:

• What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation.
• Wall Street’s Green Push Exposes New Conflicts of Interest.
• The Trump Boom Lifted Black Americans. Before the pandemic, the economy grew in ways that mostly benefited low-income and middle-class households.
• Who Really Got Rich From the GameStop Revolution?
• Ukraine’s ‘Weekend Army’ Trains as Last Defense Against Russia.
• The FTC’s New Antitrust Argument Against Tech Giants.
• Why 30 Years of Defense Consolidation May Be at an End.
• Amazon, UPS, Exxon Are on Deck to Report Earnings in Coming Week.
• The Mentors Who Helped Ulta Beauty’s Unlikely CEO Make Up for Inexperience.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (PXD), (VLO), (HUBS), (CRM), (ABT), (JNJ), (MMM), (CAT), (ADP), (MCD), (WCC) and (BAP).
  

Fox News:    

• Leaked video shows agents' heated exchange with Border Patrol leader, as Mayorkas watches.
  
• ICE agents forced to coordinate travel for illegal immigrants, some with criminal records: source.
• LIVE UPDATES: Thousands lose power as winter storm batters East Coast.
• Biden voter sounds off on why he is 'furious' with the president.
• Record-breaking state attorney general dies just hours after hospital admission. 
• Top university's long list of resources for students 'affected' by 'free speech'.

CNBC:

• Are $180 Alaskan red king crab legs worth the money? Here’s what happened when we tried it.

Zero Hedge:  

• With Trudeau In Hiding, CBC Suggests Putin Behind Truckers' Freedom Convoy.
• Less Than Half Of Americans Trust Business "To Do The Right Thing".
• The Wild Card To Watch For Oil Markets In 2022.
• Progressive Dems Distance Themselves As Biden Turns Radioactive.
• "The Elites Don't Care About The Temperature Rising, They Care About Usurping Control": George Gammon. 
• Former CDC Director: Fauci-Shaped Paper On Origins Of COVID-19 'Antithetical To Science'.
• The Virus Stops With Every Vaccinated Person" - Eight Quotes From The 'Experts' That Aged Horribly.
• US Consumers Will Push Back On High Food Prices, Mondelez CEO Says.
• Most Americans Want Diplomacy, Not War With Russia Over Ukraine; New Poll Finds.
• Chinese Ambassador Warns Increasing US Ties With Taiwan Will "Most Likely" Lead To War.
• Thousands Of Flights Canceled As 'Bomb Cyclone' Batters Northeast.
•   "What Have You Guys Been Right About?" Adam Carolla Slams Media Over Joe Rogan Controversy.
• Revisiting The Anatomy Of A Bubble.
• And The Prize For "Worst Journalism Of The Year" Goes To...
• NATO Row Erupts As Latvia Blasts Germany's "Immoral & Hypocritical" Russia, China Ties.
• How People Around The World Feel About Their Economic Prospects.
• Victor Davis Hanson: Why Putin Has Not Been Deterred.
• Visualizing The Russia-Ukraine Military Imbalance.
• Xi Jinping Seeking "Global Domination": Mike Pompeo.
• China Jails 50 Steel Mill Executives As Environmental Crackdown Intensifies.
• Shellenberger: Why San Francisco Is Denying Reality.
• China Rips Off US Military With New "Mechanical Yak" Robot.
• Biden Admin To Regulate Bitcoin 'As A Matter Of National Security'; Report.
• Florida Trucker In Canada Convoy: "We're Here To Join A Movement".
• George Soros Pledges 'Unprecedented' $125 Million To Help Democrats Win In November.

MarketWatch.com:      

• These 11 arguments will define ‘titanic battle’ between stock market bulls and bears as Fed lifts rates.
  
• 24 software stocks, including Microsoft, expected to rise by double digits over the next year.
  
• Exclusive: Jeff Bezos’s $200 million naming-rights deal with the Smithsonian does not include a ‘morals clause’.
  
• Winter storm churns up U.S. East Coast with deep snow, high winds.
  
• ‘Uber for nurses?’: Initiative targets healthcare for a ‘gig work’ law.

NewsMax:

• McCarthy Reportedly Turns to Gingrich for 2022 Midterm Strategy.
  
• Sen. Ron Johnson: US Response to COVID 'a Miserable Failure'.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• As Brigade of Trucks Reaches Canada’s Capitol, Spineless PM Trudeau Hides in “Covid Isolation” Despite 2 Negative Tests and Guidelines Saying Fully Vaxxed “Don’t Need to Isolate”.
• BIDEN’S ECONOMY: Another Key Inflation Indicator Highest In 40 Years But Don’t Worry – Biden Says Food Prices Have Barely Gone Up. 
• Grassroots Republicans Warn of Democrat Floridians Using Part Time Florida Residents Votes to Steal the 2022 Election from DeSantis — Using Gateway Pundit Information on ERIC System. 
• Fully Vaccinated Florida Woman Needs Both Legs Amputated Due to ‘Covid-19 Complications’. 
• LIVE COVERAGE: Tens of Thousands Greet Freedom Convoy 2022 as it Arrives in Ottawa, Canada (VIDEO).
• MUST SEE: Leaked Video Shows Border Patrol Agents Eviscerating Biden’s BP Chief Over Failure to Secure The US Border (VIDEO).
• WE WERE RIGHT: Jan-6er Defense Attorney Confirms the US Capitol Magnetic Columbus Doors Were Opened from the Inside.
• COVID Deaths in New York Nursing Homes Were Under Reported by Nearly 50% But Both DOJ and New Manhattan DA Drop Investigations into Cuomo.
• POLL: Over 45 Percent Say Biden Lied To Get Elected And Now Life In America Is Worse.
• EXCLUSIVE: T-Mobile Disregards Supreme Court Ruling on Vaccine Mandate – Will Terminate Unvaccinated Employees.
• “This is Not America Anymore”: Triggered Flight Attendants Force Man Wearing LGB/FJB Mask to Wear a Different Face Covering Because They Were “Offended” (VIDEO).
• INCREDIBLE VIDEO! THOUSANDS of New York Police Officers Salute in Formation as Casket of Fallen Officer Rivera Passes on Street.
• MUST SEE: Wife of Slain NYC Police Officer SLAMS Soros-Linked DA Alvin Bragg at Husband’s Funeral — Gets Standing Ovation.

The Epoch Times:

• Taiwan Says Its Athletes Will Not Participate in Beijing Olympics Ceremonies.

Twitter:

• @LFCNewsMedia - #France Todays Protest in #Paris Against The Vaccine Passports and Mandatory Vaccinations. Lets not also Forget the Hundreds of Cities Which are all Braving the Cold to Protest Against What is Considered in France the Most Liberticide Bill Ever Passed in Our Country. (video) #Canada An Amazing Day of Unity in the Biting Cold of #Ottawa, Truckers and Protesters Hand in Hand Demanding the End of all Vax Mandates and Associated Measures #TruckerConvoy2022 #TruckersForFreedom2022 #TruckerForFreedom2022. (video)
  
• @OSINTEL - Report says #Facebook deleted the Canada Truckers for Freedom group with over 600,000 members. NOW - Thousands of people took to the streets of Vienna to protest against the restrictive measures of the authorities due to the coronavirus pandemic and mandatory vaccination, the law of which comes into force on February 1. (vudei)
• @WithyGrove - VIDEO: Solidarity with the #FreedomConvoy2022 being shown at pro-democracy demonstration in #Paris this afternoon. #giletsjaunes #FrenchResistance #NoVaccineMandates #NoVaccinePassports #Macron #manifs29janvier.

GETTR:

• @DiscloseTV - NEW - Brit footballer, 35, dies suddenly in Dubai after ‘heart attack on the pitch’ as friends pay tribute. JUST IN - UK MPs launch investigation after psychologists criticize totalitarian and "grossly unethical" tactics of "deploying fear, shame and scapegoating" during the pandemic. NEW - Protest outside #Pfizer building in Paris. (video) NOW - Large protest in #Ottawa against vaccine mandates and Covid restrictions as the trucker convoy has arrived in the capital of Canada. (video)
  

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 739,999 Reports(+7,117 from prior week) Through January 21, 2021. 

SKirsch.com:

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

Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):

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