Michigan Couple Dies Of COVID Within Minutes Of Each Other Despite Being Fully Vaccinated

Michigan Couple Dies Of COVID Within Minutes Of Each Other Despite Being Fully Vaccinated

“They did everything right, they did everything to protocol the way it should be done.”

Those are the words of the daughter of a Michigan couple who died holding hands, minutes apart, after the two were both infected with COVID despite being fully vaccinated.

Grand Rapids residents Cal Dunham, 59, and his wife Linda, 66, died Monday after a brief struggle with COVID. The two had pre-existing health conditions, but had both been fully vaccinated. They started to feel ill during a family camping trip, which was cut short as the couple’s illness progressed, according to a local TV station.

“[My dad] called me before our family camping trip and said he wasn’t feeling good but he thinks it’s just like sinus, and [Linda] caught it and she’s like, ‘He gave me his cold,'” their daughter Sarah Dunham told a local Fox affiliate station.

“The third day they woke me up and said, ‘We’ve got to go because we don’t feel well.’ So I packed them all up and they left,” she said.

Their condition deteriorated within days, and they ended up on ventilators. They died on Monday after being taken off life support, allowing them to hold hands as they passed on in tandem.

“She always joked and said, ‘Well, you’re going to go before I am, I’ll be right there behind you, I promise.’ And she really was, like she really was right there behind him,” Sarah told Fox 17. “The love that they found together after a previous marriage is fantastic,” she said. “They were the people that you just looked at and you were like, ‘I want to be old like that, I want that love when I’m that age.'”

Officially, the CDC maintains that vaccines are virtually 100% effective at preventing deaths, though as time goes on, the number of examples of vaccinated Americans succumbing to the virus – whether its delta or another strain – has grown.

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Fox Guarding The Henhouse? Yes, Indeed!

Fox Guarding The Henhouse? Yes, Indeed!

Authored by Terry Paulding via AmericanThinker.com,

The compulsion to find out whether the Wu Flu started in the Wuhan lab, and at whose behest the research was done, has been almost as strong as the desperate drive to stop anyone from finding the answer.  On Sunday Morning Futures, Maria Bartiromo discussed this with Devin Nunes, wishing for the answer.  Concurrently with watching the show, I opened my email and found a link from Alex Berenson to the March 24, 2018 document outlining the gain of function research.

The document is a detailed description of the proposed research, complete with a chart of expected milestones (page 31).  

Page 10 has an easy, colorful chart (unlike the density of the verbiage) showing us laypeople what they intend. 

Page 22 shows a management plan, divided into Host-pathogen prediction and Intervention development stages.  This one document is the “holy s—!” origin proof.

Notice that Peter Daszak wrote it.  

Besides being the head of EcoHealth Alliance, which proposed and arranged for the research in Wuhan, he was the only U.S. representative in the WHO’s investigation of…COVID’s origins — the same man oft-quoted as saying there is “NO evidence” that the lab leak theory is true.

Daszak has ties to Fauci.  

Before this research started, Fauci provided $600,000 to the Wuhan lab supporting it.  That information was obfuscated, and emails between the two were redacted but finally released in July.

I think if I were to put together a Venn diagram of COVID, the central connector would be one Dr. Fauci.  He funded EcoHealth Alliance, which funded and administered the Wuhan research.  Fauci also has close ties to Moderna, including the fact that NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), which he’s chaired since 1984, funded the Moderna trial.  He pushed Remdesivir, an expensive drug that didn’t work to cure COVID patients.  And he was a key player in denigrating and banning hydroxychloroquine, the first cheap, easily obtainable drug that worked to stop COVID’s progress.

Fauci’s been at it a long time, and there’s a world of history to follow if you want.  His wife, Christine Grady, heads the department of bioethics at the NIH (National Institutes of Health).  You know, the body that presides over the ethical questions of testing vaccines.

I could go on, but I want to get to my “part two.”  

After plowing through the Daszak document (I admit I have an unhealthy inability to stay awake when reading scientific papers, but I got enough to know it’s real), I listened to Dr. Scott Atlas in a lengthy interview the Epoch Times sponsored.  It’s an hour you won’t regret if you have the time.

Atlas, who you may remember served briefly on Trump’s advisory committee on COVID, has a book, A Plague upon Our House, coming out in November.  He’s a measured, reasoned voice.  I don’t agree with everything he says, but he talks about the ethics of vaccinating children and the unknown long-term effects of the vaccines.

Atlas makes a lot of good points.  He talks about the politicization of virus and vaccines as a mistake.  Starting around minute 23, he talks about the heart inflammation issues in young males.  He talks about censorship and how it has destroyed our trust in professors and doctors.  If you can’t listen to the whole thing, I recommend picking up at minute 23 and listening for the next 10 minutes or so.  His ethical questions about using our children as shields for our own health are logical and impactful.  You may find yourself going back and listening from the beginning.

We now know beyond a doubt that the whole pandemic has been mishandled, and is continuing to be mishandled, in the U.S. and elsewhere.  We also can see alternative approaches: Norway, for instance, just decreed that normal life should resume, downgrading the pandemic to an endemic problem, meaning something that will always be with us, like the flu.

It’s time to take a critical look at our COVID response and then to change it drastically.  With no leadership from the top, this may be impossible.

Dr. Fauci is still the voice of COVID USA.  He’s had his hand in every aspect of the virus, from creating it to masking us, shutting society, and resisting early treatment, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.  His current stance, that everyone should be vaccinated regardless of age, health status, or previous COVID infection, is destructive to our lives and economy.

Far from being the face of our public health, Fauci is the face of destruction.  It’s time he was indicted, not extolled.  It’s also time we stood up and said “no” as loudly as possible — no to vaccinating our children, no to mandates, no to masks, and no to all the rules that keep us from living free lives.  The more of us do that, the faster this will end.

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“Mu Variant” Has Been Eradicated From US, Data Show

“Mu Variant” Has Been Eradicated From US, Data Show

Looks like Dr. Anthony Fauci may have been right about something (for once).

Scientists are saying that the “Mu” variant – also known as variant B.1.62 – which once sparked fears of igniting yet another wave of “breakthrough” infections has already been “eradicated” within the US. According to the most recent data on on the virus-tracking website Outbreak.info, Mu-related infections are accounting for 0% of new infections in the US.

Previously, the “Mu” strain had been found in nearly every US state. The variant peaked back in June when it accounted for just 3% of all new cases.

The strain was first detected in Colombia back in January. Since then, it has been detected in at least 40 countries.

As of Sept. 26, some 8,557 cases of Mu have been detected since it was first seen, the website said.

For those who haven’t been following the whole “Mu” variant situation, the WHO and CDC have three categories of COVID variants that make up their watch lists: variants of interest, variants of concern—which includes Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma—and variants of high consequence.

The WHO officially labeled the Mu variant a “variant of interest” on Aug. 30, which was around the peak of the “Mu” hysteria. The variant has genetic differences to the other known variants and is causing infections in multiple countries, meaning it might present a particular threat to public health.

The news comes as researchers in a Japanese study released on Monday showed that the Pfizer jab seems to offer “adequate” (76% effective) protection against Mu.

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Turley On Free Speech Immunity: YouTube Bans Channels Airing Criticism of Vaccines

Turley On Free Speech Immunity: YouTube Bans Channels Airing Criticism of Vaccines

Authored by Jonathan Turley via Res ipsa loquitur (emphasis ours)

YouTube continued the expansion of corporate censorship on the Internet with the encouragement of leading Democratic leaders. The company has banned channels associated with anti-vaccine activists like Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Once again, rather than rebutting or refuting claims made by others, many sought to silence those with opposing views. YouTube will not allow people to hear views that do not comport with an approved range of opinions.  The move magnifies concerns that we are seeing the emergence of a new type of state media as private companies conduct censorship operations barred by the Constitution for the government to conduct directly. This move comes days after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) asked Amazon to steer customers to “true” books on subjects like climate change to avoid their exposure to “disinformation.” It also follows YouTube censoring videos of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny before Russia’s parliamentary elections. The move helped Putin and his authoritarian government crack down on pro-Democracy forces.

The Google-owned site is now openly engaged in viewpoint regulation to force users to view only those sources that are consistent with the corporate agenda. Facebook banned misinformation on all vaccines seven months ago and Twitter regularly bans those questioning vaccines.

These companies are being encouraged by many on the left to expand censorship.

Faculty and editors are now actively supporting modern versions of book-burning with blacklists and bans for those with opposing political views. Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll has denounced the “weaponization” of free speech, which appears to be the use of free speech by those on the right. So the dean of one of the premier journalism schools now supports censorship.

Free speech advocates are facing a generational shift that is now being reflected in our law schools, where free speech principles were once a touchstone of the rule of law. As millions of students are taught that free speech is a threat and that “China is right” about censorship, these figures are shaping a new society in their own intolerant images.

In one critical hearing, tech CEOs appeared before the Senate to discuss censorship programs. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, but then pledged to censor more people in defense of “electoral integrity.”

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, however, was not happy. He was upset not by the promised censorship but that it was not broad enough.

He noted that it was hard to define the problem of “misleading information,” but the companies had to impose a sweeping system to combat the “harm” of misinformation on climate change as well as other areas. “The pandemic and misinformation about COVID-19, manipulated media also cause harm,” Coons said. “But I’d urge you to reconsider that because helping to disseminate climate denialism, in my view, further facilitates and accelerates one of the greatest existential threats to our world.”

Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal also warned that he and his colleagues would not tolerate any “backsliding or retrenching” by “failing to take action against dangerous disinformation.” He demanded “the same kind of robust content modification” from the companies – the new Orwellian term for censorship.

This is the face of censorship. As demanded, the companies are now sanitizing their sites to remove opposing views on these subjects. Rather than offer a free forum for the full debate on such issues, anti-free speech advocates have again prevailed in silencing those with opposing views.

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NBA Will Withhold Pay For Unvaccinated Players

NBA Will Withhold Pay For Unvaccinated Players

The NBA is upping its pressure on the ‘vaccine hesitant’ and resistors in the league, unveiling a new policy Wednesday of withholding pay for any unvaccinated players who miss games due to local mandates. 

“Any player who elects not to comply with local vaccination mandates will not be paid for games that he misses,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in new Wednesday statements. It comes after New York and San Francisco passed vax mandate executive orders, bringing into question whether unvaccinated players for the Brooklyn Nets and Golden State Warriors can still play. 

Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving, Source: Associated Press

Specifically the venues for games are requiring proof of the Covid-19 shot in order to enter the arena. This impacts players entering Barclays Center in Brooklyn and San Francisco’s Chase Center.

The season is set to start on Oct.19 and the announcement is part of a series of pandemic protocol measures unveiled by the league, which mostly focus on social distancing in locker rooms – which will be spaced out – and masking up during team meetings. 

Additionally, while vaccinated players will have to submit to only one Covid test per week, unvaccinated players will have to undergo tests more frequently. 

According to The Hill, about 90% of league players are now vaccinated, with notable exceptions

…but a number of the league’s top players have declined to get their shots, including Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal and Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins, who applied for a religious exemption which was ultimately denied by the league.

The report concludes, “That decision could be particularly problematic — and now costly — for players like Wiggins, who play home games in cities that require vaccines at large indoor events.”

Just days ago Orlando Magic star player Jonathan Isaac mounted an incredibly cogent and succinct defense pushing back against the pressure and smear campaign targeting the ‘vaccine hesitant’. The clip of the remarks quickly went viral

Controversially, the National Basketball Players Association successfully thwarted plans by the NBA to impose a blanket vaccine mandate over all players, calling it a “non-starter”

Absurdly, media outlets like CNN are actually going after players who are merely “withholding vaccination status” amid a general smear campaign which some prominent athletes have begun pushing back against.

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Why “Natural Immunity” Is A Political Problem For The Regime

Why “Natural Immunity” Is A Political Problem For The Regime

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

Since 2020, public health technocrats and their allies among elected officials have clung to the position that absolutely every person who can possibly get a covid vaccine should get one.

Both the Mayo Clinic website and the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, for example, insist that “research has not yet shown” that people who have recovered from covid have any sort of reliable protection. Moreover, the CDC page points to a single study from Kentucky claiming that people with natural immunity are more than twice as likely to contract covid again, compared to people who have been vaccinated.

This narrative is reflected in the fact that the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates are a one-size-fits-all policy insisting that virtually all adults, regardless of whether or not they’ve already had the disease, receive a covid vaccine. The official position is apparently this: nothing except the vaccine can provide any sort of resistance or immunity. So get a vaccine. No exceptions!

Health technocrats have repeatedly insisted that “the science” points unambiguously toward everyone receiving a vaccine, even to the point of pushing vaccines for children. All this in spite of the fact the risk to children from covid is far less than the risk a dozen common daily risks, such as riding in an automobile.

The regime has attached itself closely to a vaccinate-everybody-no-matter-what policy, and a sudden u-turn would be politically problematic. So it’s no wonder there’s so little interest in the topic.

Indeed, in a September 10 interview, senior covid technocrat Anthony Fauci claimed that the matter of natural immunity was not even being discussed at government health agencies. Fauci’s response suggested that the facts of natural immunity warranted discussion at some point in the future. But the comment certainly fit the dominant regime narrative nonetheless: the facts of natural immunity don’t matter for now. Everyone should just get vaccinated:

CNN’s Sanjay Gupta asked if people who have already recovered from COVID-19 should still be required to get the vaccine.

“I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that,” [Fauci] said Thursday on CNN. “I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously.”

Maybe someday they’ll get to talking about it.

But some physicians aren’t as obsessed with pushing vaccine mandates as Anthony Fauci, and the evidence in favor of natural immunity is becoming so undeniable that even mainstream publications are starting to admit it.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post last week, Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine argues that the medical profession has hurt its credibility in pretending that natural immunity is virtually irrelevant to the covid equation. Moreover, the dogmatic “get vaccinated” position constitutes a lack of honesty about the data. Rather, Makary concludes:

[W]e can encourage all Americans to get vaccinated while still being honest about the data. In my clinical experience, I have found patients to be extremely forgiving with evolving data if you are honest and transparent with them. Yet, when asked the common question, “I’ve recovered from covid, is it absolutely essential that I get vaccinated?” many public health officials have put aside the data and responded with a synchronized “yes,” even as studies have shown that reinfections are rare and often asymptomatic or mild when they do occur.

And what are these studies? Makary continues:

More than 15 studies have demonstrated the power of immunity acquired by previously having the virus. A 700,000-person study from Israel two weeks ago found that those who had experienced prior infections were 27 times less likely to get a second symptomatic covid infection than those who were vaccinated. This affirmed a June Cleveland Clinic study of health-care workers (who are often exposed to the virus), in which none who had previously tested positive for the coronavirus got reinfected. The study authors concluded that “individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from covid-19 vaccination.” And in May, a Washington University study found that even a mild covid infection resulted in long-lasting immunity.

The policy bias in favor of vaccines ignores many other facts as well, such as the relative risks of vaccines, especially for the young:

The current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention position about vaccinating children also dismisses the benefits of natural immunity. The Los Angeles County School District recently mandated vaccines for students ages 12 and up who want to learn in person. But young people are less likely to suffer severe or long-lasting symptoms from covid-19 than adults, and have experienced rare heart complications from the vaccines. In Israel, heart inflammation has been observed in between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 6,000 males age 16 to 24; the CDC has confirmed 854 reports nationally in people age 30 and younger who got the vaccine.

A second dose of the two-shot mRNA vaccine like that produced by Pfizer and Moderna may not even be necessary in children who had covid. Since February, Israel’s Health Ministry has been recommending that anyone, adult or adolescent, who has recovered from covid-19 receive a only single mRNA vaccine dose, instead of two. Even though the risk of severe illness during a reinfection is exceedingly low, some data has demonstrated a slight benefit to one dose in this situation. Other countries use a similar approach. The United States could adopt this strategy now as a reasonable next step in transitioning from an overly rigid to a more flexible vaccine requirement policy. For comparison, the CDC has long recommended that kids do not get the chickenpox vaccine if they had chickenpox infection in the past.

The nonscientific, ideology-induced blind spot for natural immunity also prompted The BMJ  (the journal of the British Medical Association) to note that “[w]hen the vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than one quarter of Americans—91 million—had been infected with SARS-CoV-2…. As of this May, that proportion had risen to more than a third of the population, including 44% of adults aged 18–59.”

And yet, the authors note this fact doesn’t appear to be a part of any policy discussion at all: 

The substantial number of infections, coupled with the increasing scientific evidence that natural immunity was durable, led some medical observers to ask why natural immunity didn’t seem to be factored into decisions about prioritising vaccination.

This problem is reflected in the Biden administration’s drive for booster shots—announced in mid-August—even before there was any clinical research on booster shots at all. Even by mid-September, as one hospital’s chief medical officer put it, “the data is not compelling one way or another.”

But those sorts of details don’t trouble federal “public health” officials, and the Biden administration quickly moved toward pushing booster shots for everyone. 

This Is Why There Should Be No Mandatory Medical Treatment

Of course, mandating vaccines—like mandating any medical treatment—would still be immoral even if we could list a dozen studies suggesting boosters are a boon and that natural immunity is no good.

What if there were twenty-five studies “proving” vaccines are better than natural immunity, but only twenty studies “proving” natural immunity is better? Would coercive vaccine mandates then suddenly be justified? Unfortunately, that’s exactly how many advocates for repressive covid policies think the world should work. For these people, policy is just a matter of adding up the number of studies “proving” their side is right, and then claiming this justifies forcing mandatory medications on millions of human beings. 

(It never works in reverse, of course. The fact that there’s a lot of evidence—as Makary points out—against vaccines for those who have natural immunity, the dominant narrative is nonetheless that vaccines are “necessary” and “worth it” for everybody, always and everywhere.)

In the real world, however, many medications—including these new vaccines—come with risks that must be weighed against potential benefits. These decisions can only be made at the individual level, where patients must make their own decisions about what substances to put into their own bodies. In other words, blanket policies proclaiming “everyone must receive this medical treatment immediately, or else” contradicts the realities of the uncertainties and varying risk levels that affect individuals. The facts of uncertainty and informed consent were once considered a mainstay of medical ethics—and of any political ideology that actually respects self-determination and basic human rights. Unfortunately, the philosophy of “public health” appears to be uninterested in such trivialities.

At this point, it would be embarrassing for the regime to admit what actual scientific inquiry has shown: that natural immunity is generally superior to receiving the vaccine. The regime doesn’t like to be embarrassed, and neither do the countless doctors and nurses who have long toed the regime’s political line. So expect more of the same. 

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Karla Vermeulen: Inside the Mind of ‘Generation Disaster’


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What are the long-term psychological effects of growing up in a world where the 9/11 attacks and school shootings drastically restructured your childhood around overblown fears of random violence, where the Great Recession wiped out your parents’ savings and the historically slow economic recovery hampered your job prospects for a decade, and where you were reminded every single day that the world only has a few years left before climate change makes the planet uninhabitable? And on top of all that, add increasingly intense political polarization, racial reckonings, and Covid-19?

Meet “Generation Disaster,” the subject of a fascinating new book by State University of New York psychologist Karla Vermeulen. Subtitled Coming of Age Post 9/11, Generation Disaster is built around a massive national survey of people born between 1990 and 2001. Vermeulen looks at the cumulative impact of being raised in a relentlessly apocalyptic social and political environment, the role that Boomer and Gen X parents and authorities play in stoking anxiety, and how new forms of technology and media have influenced the worldviews of Millennials and Gen Z members roughly between the ages of 20 and 30.

In an era of mounting generational hostility, Karla Vermeulen is an essential mediator between older and younger Americans and her book, Generation Disaster, is a rich, empathetic portrait of a group too often simply—and wrongly—dismissed as weak, lazy, and entitled.

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Is The Price Of Oil All That Matters To Central Banks

Is The Price Of Oil All That Matters To Central Banks

DB’s Jim Reid has published a remarkable observation in his “chart of the day” note, one which suggests that at least for the ECB, the price of oil – with its widespread social, financial and economic implications – may be all that matters.

As Reid writes, “the financial world is trying to work out what the implications are for the energy price shocks we are seeing and whether central banks should tighten policy as a result or keep policy loose to reflect possible demand destruction that it might eventually bring.” In response, ECB President Lagarde yesterday warned that the “key challenge is to ensure that we do not overreact to transitory supply shocks that have no bearing on the medium-term.”

It appears that she was actually addressing her own ECB, referring to the missteps made by her central bank when responding to oil price shocks. Because for all of Lagarde’s rhetoric, this is not how the ECB has traditionally respond to big energy moves. On the contrary.

As the chart below shows, ever since the ECB came into being they’ve tended to consistently tighten into rising oil prices (green on the graph) and loosen when they notably fall (red). The exception was in March/June this year when they loosened further by increasing the pace of the PEPP. And since the ECB works in concert with the Fed, once can extend this observation and correctly argue that all central banks respond to the price of one commodity.

What is remarkable about this chart is that while central banks claim they only care about core inflation instead of headline, it appears ECB’s monetary policy has been closely linked to the ebb and flow of commodities in general, and particularly oil prices, over the last 20 plus years.

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Karla Vermeulen: Inside the Mind of ‘Generation Disaster’


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What are the long-term psychological effects of growing up in a world where the 9/11 attacks and school shootings drastically restructured your childhood around overblown fears of random violence, where the Great Recession wiped out your parents’ savings and the historically slow economic recovery hampered your job prospects for a decade, and where you were reminded every single day that the world only has a few years left before climate change makes the planet uninhabitable? And on top of all that, add increasingly intense political polarization, racial reckonings, and Covid-19?

Meet “Generation Disaster,” the subject of a fascinating new book by State University of New York psychologist Karla Vermeulen. Subtitled Coming of Age Post 9/11, Generation Disaster is built around a massive national survey of people born between 1990 and 2001. Vermeulen looks at the cumulative impact of being raised in a relentlessly apocalyptic social and political environment, the role that Boomer and Gen X parents and authorities play in stoking anxiety, and how new forms of technology and media have influenced the worldviews of Millennials and Gen Z members roughly between the ages of 20 and 30.

In an era of mounting generational hostility, Karla Vermeulen is an essential mediator between older and younger Americans and her book, Generation Disaster, is a rich, empathetic portrait of a group too often simply—and wrongly—dismissed as weak, lazy, and entitled.

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Washington Worries Spark Dollar Buying-Panic; Bitcoin & Bullion Dive

Washington Worries Spark Dollar Buying-Panic; Bitcoin & Bullion Dive

The ongoing debacle in Washington is not helping anything into quarter-end, as debt ceiling doubts have sent USA sovereign risk to cycle highs once again… that’s near the highest level since the 2015 Debt Ceiling chaos.

Source: Bloomberg

And Pelosi’s pontifications have done nothing to take the ‘kink’ in the Bills curve…

Source: Bloomberg

Will the Democrats get everything they deserve this week?

A choppy day in equity-land saw overnight gains (again), chaos around the US open (again)… some dip-buying and then another weak close (as Manchin warned no spending deal for at least 2-3 weeks). Small Caps were the day’s biggest loser with Nasdaq slumping red (as up over 1% overnight) in the late-day weakness

The S&P 500 is on track to post its first monthly decline since January. While rising bond yields, Fed tapering, the delta variant and inflation help explain that, all of those will slow profit growth after rising earnings estimates and big beats helped fuel 2021’s stock rally until now with an always-optimistic eye for the ‘recovery’ and ‘return to normal’ that now seems ever further away.

Treasury yields roller-coastered today but overall it was a ‘pause’ in the panic-selling.

Source: Bloomberg

10Y Yields tested down to 1.50% intraday and found support before pushing back to close unch…

Source: Bloomberg

The USDollar screamed higher for the second straight day – the biggest 2-day jump since June and 3rd biggest 2-day jump in a year… We note that into the end of Q3 2020, we also saw a notable surge in demand for dollars…

Source: Bloomberg

…to its highest since the election (early Nov 2020)…

Source: Bloomberg

Note that the real bulk of the USD buying has occurred from the EU open to the EU close for the last few days…

Source: Bloomberg

EURUSD plunged to a 1.15 handle for the first time since July 2020…

Source: Bloomberg

And as the dollar soared, gold was monkeyhammered…

And crypto took a beating too…

Source: Bloomberg

Nattie plunged today too – its biggest one-day drop since Dec 2020 – on forecasts for warmer weather conditions…

European natural gas closes at a fresh all-time high after rising >10% today (both for UK NBP and Dutch TTF benchmarks). At the close, European gas was at the equivalent of ~$29 per mBtu…

or close to $170 per barrel of oil equivalent. Yes, you read that correctly.

Source: Bloomberg

WTI closed lower today – after a failed attempt to rally back to $76 to close with a $74 handle…

Source: Bloomberg

In fact, comparing US NatGas to US Crude, Henry Hub is at the extreme rich end of the recent range relative to WTI…

Source: Bloomberg

Finally, tick, tock…

Source: Bloomberg

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