Piousbox

First, Trump short-circuited the Fed's rate-cut process. Now he is going after QE by launching his own version of it. 

Update (1858):

The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE "warrior" and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to "document and resist" ICE operations in Minnesota.  

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

In response to decades of corporate-poisoned nutrition advice, the Trump administration has unleashed updated federal dietary guidelines that torch added sugars, champion protein and healthy fats, and slam the door on ultra-processed junk fueling America’s chronic disease crisis.

The Trump administration withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties that it said go against the country’s interests, the White House announced on Jan. 7.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary would not leave the European Union, which instead would "fall apart on its own" due to "leadership chaos" and said Brussels aimed to cut Hungary off from Russian energy supplies during a press conference on Monday. 

It didn't take long. Within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in the Minneapolis area, the Democratic Party's protest industrial complex moved into action, quickly creating conditions for coordinated demonstrations across multiple cities.

Submitted by Thomas Kolbe

In a letter to members of the governing coalition that has so far only become known in fragments, Chancellor Friedrich Merz warns of a severe economic crisis and calls for reforms. Yet the circulating and quotable elements of the document from the Chancellery reveal no deviation whatsoever from the course already taken.

Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump is seeking to acquire Greenland as a U.S. national security priority necessary to deter adversaries in the region and may consider military action, the White House said on Tuesday.

If the last years have shown us anything, it’s that a lot can change, fast.

While many events cannot be foreseen, can others?

By Elwin de Groot, Head of Macro Strategy at Rabobank

Update (1014ET):

"Donroe Doctrine" to clean up the Western Hemisphere was busy Wednesday morning, with the seizure of the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) in the North Atlantic, followed by U.S. forces seizing a stateless dark-fleet tanker in the Caribbean region.