Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:              

• Ukraine Officials Cast Blame on Russia, Belarus in Cyberattack.
• Iran Says Oil Sales Have Had a ‘Staggering’ Rise Over Past Year.
• Putin’s Troops Wouldn’t Get Cheers in This Once Pro-Russia City.
• Hedge Funds Betting Against the Aussie Get Tested by Its Rally.
• Disappointing Decade for European Bank Stocks Gives Way to Rally.  
• Asia Stocks Set for Steady Start Before China Data: Markets Wrap.
• Biden Faulted on Inflation by Majority in CBS Poll.
• Black Democrats See ‘Bleak’ 2022 as Biden Disappoints on Issues.  
• Trader Vitol Says Oil Prices May Rise Even More on Tight Supply. 
• Frequent Boosters Spur Warning on Immune Response.
• Target CEO Sees Fewer Store Trips as Shoppers Confront Inflation.  
• Americans Stampede Into Inflation-Linked Bonds, Smashing Records.  
• Bitcoin’s Dominance of Crypto Payments Is Starting to Erode.

Wall Street Journal:

• Increase in Cases Pressures U.S. Hospitals.
• To Sway Unvaccinated, New Tactics Are Tried at Funeral Homes, on Radio Shows.
• Citigroup, GE Diverge on Vaccine Mandate. 
• The Democrats’ Inflation Blame Game. Everyone and everything is responsible except the government spending that’s actually fueling it.
• Big Tech Braces for a Wave of Regulation.
• Day Traders as ‘Dumb Money’? The Pros Are Now Paying Attention.

Fox News:

• 'Corrupt' FBI shredded over statement dismissing key element of Texas synagogue attack.
• Nationality of accused synagogue hostage taker revealed as authorities seek more details.
  
• Sen. Graham: Texas synagogue hostage situation part of 'religious war'.
• Editorial board argues military should lock unvaxxed Americans in their homes.
• Youngkin's education appointments a shot across the bow of 'radical' CRT.

CNBC:

• Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse.
• 3G networks will disappear this year — and that’s bad news for your car. Here’s why.
• Earnings season is the next big test for the market and value stocks in the week ahead. 
• Top Wall Street analysts say these stocks have the best long-term potential.

Zero Hedge:

• States Investigating Surge In Mortality Rate Among 18–49-Year-Olds, Majority Unrelated To COVID-19.
• Et Tu? Chuck Todd Savages Biden Over Failing Presidency As Liberal Media Cuts Bait.
• False Flags Suddenly No Longer A Crazy Conspiracy Theory.
• Fully Vaccinated Canadian Soccer Star Alphonso Davies Sidelined With Myocarditis. 
• "Waste Of Time" To Keep Vaccinating People: Ex-Head Of UK Vaccine Taskforce.
• Flight Cancellations Soar As Brutal Winter Storm Slams Eastern US.
• Utah's Largest Newspaper Calls For Unvaxxed To Endure Draconian Lockdowns Enforced By National Guard.
• "We Are Going To Take Back America": Trump Holds First Rally Of 2022 In Arizona.
• Leaked Fauci Financials Expose How Millionaire Doctor Profited From Pandemic.
• China Set To Release Crude From Strategic Reserve In Early February.
• Labor Shortage And Surging Shipping Costs Are Biggest Drivers Of US Food Inflation.
• WHO Recommends 2 New Drugs as COVID-19 Treatments.
• Is BoJo Losing His Base?
• Europe's Spendthrifts Are Stuck In Irreversible Debt-Traps.
• For Leftists, Your Freedom Is Their Misery – Your Slavery Is Their Joy.
• Visualizing The $94 Trillion World Economy In One Chart.
• The Lab Leak: The Plots & Schemes Of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, And Francis Collins.
• FedEx Wants To Arm Cargo Planes With Anti-Missile Lasers.
• So You Want A Career In Finance?
• Hospital System Drops Race-Based COVID Treatment Policy After Lawsuit Threats.
• Virginia's New AG Fires Civil Rights Division, Will Start Prosecuting Cases Dropped By 'Social Justice' DAs. 
• RSV More Prevalent Than COVID-19 In Colorado Children: Chief Medical Officer.

MarketWatch.com:        

• Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.  
• These 14 bank stocks are in the best position to benefit from rising interest rates.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• ACT NOW: US Rep. Kat Cammack Sounds Alarm – Dems Breaking All the Rules to End Free and Fair Elections Forevermore – Hiding HR1 in a NASA Bill – Contact Senators Now – List Attached. 
• New Normal: Former Malaysian Professional Football Player Dies of Heart Attack 5 Days After Receiving COVID-19 Booster Shot.
• Sen. Marshall Releases Documents that PROVE Dr. Fauci Lied About His Previously Unpublished Income. 
• Speaker Pelosi’s Son Is Involved in Five Companies Probed by Federal Agencies but Somehow, He Walks Free.
• EPIC! Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake at AZ Trump Rally: “I Want to Lock Somebody Down, That Liar Doctor Fauci… My BS Meter Goes Off Every Time He Opens His Mouth” (VIDEO).
• LIVE-STREAM VIDEO: THOUSANDS Turn Out For President Trump’s First Save America Rally Of 2022 In Florence, Arizona – NEW Speaker List Released.
• China Reaffirms Alliance with Iran Days After the Ayatollah Releases Video Showing Assassination of President Trump.
• Australian Regime Deports World’s #1 Player Novak Djokovic from Country, Bans Him from Entry for 3 Years – Saying His Presence Could Stir Up Anti-Vaccine Sentiments (VIDEO).
• “They have Pushed Medicine on Me and Abuse Me in the Facilities and Jail Because of What I Believe” – J6 Defendant Matt Council Shares his Tragic Story.
• Autopsy Reveals Death of 26-Year-Old Man Who Developed Myocarditis was Due to Pfizer Vaccine.
• Maine Doctor Loses License, Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation for Treating Covid Patients with Ivermectin, ‘Spreading Covid Misinformation’.

The Epoch Times:

• Omicron Reaches Beijing, Deepening Uncertainty for Winter Olympics.  
• Chinese Spy Operating in UK Parliament Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Senior Lawmaker.

Twitter:

• @Krommsan - In case anyone missed their beloved #PfizerCEO say the quiet parts out loud… Pfizer CEO: “Two doses of the vaccine offers very limited protection, if any. 3 doses with a booster offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and deaths. Less protection against infection.” (video)
• @DrEliDavid - Yesterday Israeli Medical Association called for stopping mass testings and quarantines, and stopping Covid passports. Today the largest hospital in Israel attacked Ministry of Health for its "insane policies". The tide is turning. The official narrative is falling apart.
• @BennyJohnson -  @KariLake: "When I am your governor, there will be no mandates and no lockdowns. Actually, let me, let me revise that just a little bit. I want to lock somebody down. And it's that liar, Dr. Fauci."
• @SKMorefield - Tucker Carlson & Dr. Scott Atlas discuss how the CDC is finally coming clean after their years-long deception about Covid death numbers. "This was an intentional inculcation of fear in the American public." (video)
• @The_Real_Fly - THIS IS AMERICA. (video)  
• @BananaMediaQ Hungary - Budapest [Jan 16, 2022] Huge protest today in #Budapest against vax mandates & passports!

GETTR:

• @DiscloseTV - NOW - Large protest against compulsory vaccination in #Vienna, Austria. (video)  

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 723,041 Reports(+7,185 from prior week) Through January 7, 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).

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• China Home Market Slump Deepens as Prices Fall for Fourth Month.
• China’s Property Crisis Reaches Biggest Builder Country Garden.
• Beijing Reports Omicron Case 3 Weeks Before Winter Olympics.  
• China’s Economy Loses Steam Just as Omicron Spreads: Eco Week.
• U.S. Vaccinations Stall; Beijing Reports Omicron: Virus Update.
• Meme Stocks, De-SPACS and Biotech Slump in Rough Start to 2022.  
• Glaxo Rejects $68 Billion Unilever Bid for Consumer Business.  
• Biden’s Bad Winter Gets Worse With Inflation, Virus and Russia.
  
• Charting the Global Economy: Inflation’s Grip Tightens Further.
• Ackman Says Fed Needs Half-Point Rate Hike to Regain Credibility.  
• Wall Street’s Big Banks Are Set to Tap the Corporate Bond Market.  
• Fed Will Find It Hard to Talk About Path Ahead After March Hike.  
• Roughed-Up Treasury Market Must Now Reckon With Supply Shifts.  
• FBI Deployed to Hostage Situation at Synagogue in Texas.  
• Southeastern U.S. Braces for Major Winter Storm.

Wall Street Journal:

• Tech Giants Weave an Undersea Web of Power.
• People Really Want to Ski. Vail Is Racing to Keep Up.
• U.S. Businesses Sour on Saudi Arabia in Blow to Crown Prince.
• LSE Proposes Special Listings for Private Companies.
• The Week Biden’s Agenda Hit a Wall.
• Australia Feared Letting Djokovic Stay Would Fuel Antivaccine Sentiment.
• Omicron, Inflation and Labor Shortages: CEOs Brace for Change in 2022.
• New Maps Pit Republicans vs. Republicans and Democrats vs. Democrats. 
• Can Politics Get Better When Higher Education Keeps Getting Worse? Voters have the sense to resist notions like critical race theory. A generation from now, they may not. 
• A Deceptive Covid Study, Unmasked. Duke researchers look at transmission in schools and end up reinforcing their prior assumptions.
• The Pain of Online School Remains, Even When Kids Are in Classrooms.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (ADBE), (ANGI), (PXD), (COP), (DVN) and (FCX).
  

Fox News: 

• LIVE UPDATES: New details emerge about suspect who's been holding rabbi, 3 others hostage for hours.
• GOP state attorney general unveils slew of investigations hours after starting job.
• Biden reportedly set to RAM THROUGH police reform agenda using executive action.
• Dem committee’s new hire supports 'abolition' of police.

CNBC:

• The Fed is about to see a lot of new faces. What it means for banks, the economy and markets.
  
• Bill Ford is doubling down on Ford shares, and quietly amassing more control of the company. 
• How the U.S. fell behind in lithium, the ‘white gold’ of electric vehicles.

Zero Hedge:

• Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital For COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated.
• Leaked Fauci Financials Expose How Millionaire Doctor Profited From Pandemic.
• How Goldman Is Convincing Its Clients Not To Freak Out About Fed Rate Hikes.
• Japan Faces Three Meter High Tsunami Threat After Undersea Volcano Eruption In South Pacific.
• Politicizing COVID-19 From The Start.
• Democrats Moving Away From Lockdown Restrictions Over Fears Of Being Crushed Politically.
• TME Saturday: Sentiment screams buy, but....
• Supermarkets Slash Hours As Workers Call Out Sick; Store Shelves Remain Bare.
• Denial Of Natural Immunity In CMS Vaccine Mandate "Unprecedented In Modern History": Scott Atlas.
• The Great Omicron Sickout: Millions Of Unwell Americans Causing "Hellacious" Worker Shortages.
• British Government Used "Propagandistic" Fear Tactics To Scare Public Into Mass Compliance.
• Labor Shortage Hits CVS, Walgreens, Forcing Pharmacies To Close Early.
• Malone: 'Mass Formation' Deployed On You After Over 200 Years Of Study.
• Teachers Across France Stage Mass Walkout Over Govt's Ever-Changing COVID-19 Rules.
• China Reveals AI News Anchor, Almost Indistinguishable From Real Human.
• Gene Discovered In Georgia Sewer Resistant To World's Most Important Antibiotics.
• German Government Considering Shutting Down Telegram; Report.
• Norway Rakes In Highest-Ever Oil Revenues As Prices Surge.
• German Health Minister Supports Vaccine Mandate For All Adults.
• Sullivan: Chances That Russia Invades Ukraine "High".
• Iran Promotes Video Depicting Assassination Of Trump At Mar-a-Lago.

MarketWatch.com:          

• U.S. South braces for major winter storm.
  
• Buying a car from the factory sounds expensive, but it can actually save you money. Here’s how to do it.

NewsMax:

• DeSantis: Roberts, Kavanaugh Lacked 'Backbone' on Vaccine Mandate Ruling. 
• Twitter Bans Account for Threat to Kill Trump, But Ayatollah's Account Still Active.
• Rep. Fallon: 'Red Tsunami' Coming in This Year's Races.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• DirecTV Cancels OAN after Joe Biden Orders Media Outlets and Tech Giants to Banish Voices that Deviate from the Regime’s Official Narrative.
• Transgender UPenn Swimmer Lia Thomas Claims to be the “Jackie Robinson of Trans Sports”.
• UPDATE: Virginia Governor Youngkin Signs 11 Executive Actions on First Day in Office Including Banning CRT, Ending Vax Mandate, Ending School Mask Mandate, etc.
• Celine Dion Cancels Remaining North American Tour Dates Due to Recent Health Issue – “Severe and Persistent Muscle Spasms”.
• “Parents Should Have a Say in What is Taught in Schools” – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Receives Standing Ovation at Inauguration Speech (VIDEO).
• Hostage-Taker at Texas Synagogue Claims to be Brother of Incarcerated Terrorist “Lady Al-Qaeda” – Crisis Still Ongoing.
• New Normal: Football Star Alphonso Davies Develops Myocarditis – Will Be Out for Weeks.
• EXCLUSIVE: New Information Shows Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos Was Intimately Behind the Insertion of Drop Boxes Across the Country.
• 15-Year-Old Soccer Player from Brazil Dies from Cardiac Arrest Following National Football Cup Tournament Game.

Twitter:

• @LFConaction - #France Its packed !! You would think this is #Paris but it is the city of #Montpellier that is protesting against the Vaccine Pass and the insults President Macron has proffered against the people of France. (video)
  

GETTR:

• @DiscloseTV - NEW - Peer-reviewed large PSM study from Brazil finds, "regular use of ivermectin as a prophylactic agent was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates." NOW - Large protest against compulsory vaccination in #Vienna, Austria. (video) 

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 723,041 Reports(+7,185 from prior week) Through January 7, 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).

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:         

• Americans Stampede Into Inflation-Linked Bonds, Smashing Records.
• Tech Stocks Stumble to Worst Start Since 2016 on Rate-Hike Fears.
• Goldman’s Most Elite Rank to Get Millions in Special Payouts.
• DirecTV to Drop One America News in Blow to Conservative Channel.  
• Summers Says U.S. Risks Recession by Blaming Inflation on Greed.  
• LA Looters Raid Unattended Containers Amid Supply-Chain Chaos.  
• Prince Andrew and His Accuser in a Sex-Abuse Lawsuit Agree to Keep Some Evidence Secret.  
• U.S. Home Sales Tumble Most in 18 Months With Listings Scarce.  
• Watch Corporate Debt for Early Warning on U.S. Credit Stress.  
• Treasury Yields Jump Toward 2-Year High, Shattering Market Calm.  
• Whipped-Up Nasdaq Volatility Is New Gut Check for Bottom Feeders.

Wall Street Journal:

• Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fear Losing Staff Over Vaccine Rules.
• Florida Is Living With Covid—and Freedom. The state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, on his advice against tests for the asymptomatic, his opposition to vaccination mandates, and life in Los Angeles under lockdown.
• McDonald’s CEO Confronts a Supersized Challenge.

Fox News: 

• Biden blamed as cringeworthy details emerge about COVID plan weeks after omicron surge started in US.
• Biden ripped for continued COVID failures after presser: 'Imagine if Trump told us to Google test sites'.
• Top-paid federal employee's financial records have been buried — until now.

CNBC:

• Dow drops 200 points Friday as bank stocks get hit, market posts second losing week to start 2022.
• Bill Ford is doubling down on Ford shares, and quietly amassing more control of the company.
• Wage inflation has arrived in a big way and Jamie Dimon says CEOs ‘shouldn’t be crybabies about it’.
• Netflix raises prices in U.S. and Canada, stock pops.
• CDC updates mask guidance, says N95s offer ‘highest protection’.

Zero Hedge:

• One Bank Sees A Stagflationary Hellscape For Markets In 2022: Here's How To Trade It.
• What's Going On With Nancy Pelosi's Son?
• "We've Got A Gun At Every Door In The House": Border Rancher Sees 2,400% Increase In Illegal Aliens On Property.
• Poll Finds Only 10% Of Americans Trust Media On COVID, 30% Trust Fauci.
• "We're Breaking Her, Keep Going": ACLU Strategist Issues Chilling Tweet Against Sinema.
• Beijing Initiates "Olympic Bubble" Measures For Pandemic Control.
• Dr. Oz Slams "Petty Tyrant" Fauci, Challenges Him To Debate On COVID.
• The Double Helix Of Entwined Pandemic And Economic Strategy.
• What You Need To Know Ahead Of Weekend Winter Storm.
• Why Democrats Make Energy Expensive (And Dirty).
• Taibbi: Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again.
• Soros-Backed Baltimore State's Attorney Indicted On Federal Perjury Charges.
• The Fed Has Triggered A Stagflationary Disaster That Will Hit Hard This Year.
• How Central Planners Corrupted The World.
• 11 Reasons Why This Was Joe Biden's Worst Week Ever.
• Nasdaq Extends Worst Start To A Year Since 2009 As Fed Sends Rate-Hike Odds Soaring.

MarketWatch.com:        

• Here’s what a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets.
  
• Oil rallies as analyst warns Ukraine crisis could be a ‘seismic event’ for the energy market.

NewsMax: 

• Rep. Cammack: WH Silence 'Deafening' on Iran's Trump Assassination Video.
• Sen. Ron Johnson: 'Disappointed' SCOTUS Didn't Stop Healthcare Mandate.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• BRACE YOURSELF! The ‘Mother of All Supply Chain Shocks’ Is Coming as China Shuts Down Major Ports Due to Pandemic.
• Hillary Clinton Slams “White Moderates” with MLK Quote After Sinema, Manchin Blow up Biden’s Bid to Kill the Filibuster… And it Backfires.
• Dystopia Down Under: Australia Refuses to Provide World’s Number One Tennis Player Novak Djokovic a Visa After Messing with Him for a Week.
• Alec Baldwin Turns Over iPhone in Probe of Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting One Month After Search Warrant Issued For Device.
• GE Suspends Vaccine Requirement After Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden OSHA Mandate.
• Biden Urges States And Businesses To ‘Do The Right Thing’ And Keep Forcing Workers To Vaccinate Despite Supreme Court Ruling.
• Federal Entity in DC Is Keeping a List of Individuals Who Refused Vaccine Based on Religious Grounds.

The Epoch Times:

• Congress Distributes ‘Made in China’ Masks to House Members, Drawing Criticism From GOP Lawmakers.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 715,856 Reports(+6,773 from prior week) Through December 31, 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).