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It happened quietly, but yesterday the confederate flag and other symbols were banned. To get the details. >>>  CLICK HERE In Case You Missed It... >> Child Murderer Set Free Despite ICE Detainer >> Biden Asks Americans To 'Turn the Page' >>  Attorney General Barr Quits   Good morning. Today, a massive snowstorm is expected to blanket the East Coast from Virginia to Boston with as much as 2' of snow in some areas. Not sure which school principal needs to hear this, but just because you can switch to remote school doesn’t mean you should switch to remote school. MARKETS NASDAQ 12,569.54 + 1.04% S&P 3,691.73 + 1.21% DOW 30,203.49 + 1.15% GOLD 1,855.70 + 1.29% 10-YR 0.920% + 2.40 bps OIL 47.61 + 1.32% *As of market close Fed: The central bank will conclude its final meeting of 2020 today with an updated economic outlook and potential changes to its bond-buying plan. Expect Chair Jerome Powell to explain how the vaccine rollout will (or won't) influence the central bank’s policies. Markets: Stocks jumped and the Nasdaq closed at a record high. It helps when Apple, a member of all three major indexes, gains 5%.  SMALL BIZ The Oracle Warns of Big Problems for Small Businesses Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage via Getty Images In an interview with CNBC yesterday morning, legendary investor Warren Buffett urged Congress to pass legislation to help small businesses stay afloat. Buffett called the situation facing Mom and Pop an "economic war," and labeled small businesses "collateral damage in a war that our country needed to fight." He called on Congress to extend the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) "on a large scale."  Remember the PPP? We wrote about it often during the worst of the economic crisis in March and April. It's a $525 billion government program intended to help small businesses keep workers on payroll.  PPP has been criticized for fraud and not actually going to small businesses.  But PPP may have been the economic equivalent of a vodka soda—imperfect but still effective. "Don't let that turn you away from something where millions of people were being helped," Buffett argued yesterday. It's all about access to credit Large corporations have several funding options, such as the bond market, to tap into on a rainy day. And 2020, of course, has been particularly stormy: U.S. companies have sold a record $2.4 trillion of bonds so far this year, per Dealogic.  "Small businesses don't have that access," Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told CNBC yesterday. Which is why he, too, supports another round of PPP funding.  A real-world example: This summer, American Airlines was able to raise $2.5 billion from selling bonds even as it was bleeding $58 million/day. Much smaller GNS Foods, which supplies American Airlines with nuts, struggled to refinance a $500,000 mortgage on its warehouse, writes the Financial Times. Looking ahead…a stimulus bill from a bipartisan group of lawmakers contains $300 billion in aid for small businesses, including devastated restaurants and entertainment venues. Help could be on the way if Congress gets the job done. MEDIA The Devil Runs Condé Giphy Yesterday, print media titan Condé Nast announced that legendary fashion gatekeeper Anna Wintour will be elevated from U.S. Vogue editor/artistic director to reigning Empress Of Stylishness global chief content officer.  The backstory: Wintour became U.S. Vogue editor in 1988, then added the "artistic director" title in 2014. That means she's been helping steer a ship of the U.S.' most iconic glossies—including GQ, Vanity Fair, and Bon Appétit—through the slow but steady collapse of print media.   Condé has had its share of setbacks, especially this year (it laid off about 100 people in May as the pandemic hit), but it's in the midst of a turnaround plan. CEO Roger Lynch plans to lean on 1) digital video and 2) paywalls to reach profitability. Condé's also still responding to criticism over its treatment of Black employees, who have said they are marginalized. Wintour apologized for her role in sidelining Black creators in June.  Bottom line: Condé may be changing its ways, but its most influential face is staying put.  TECH Big Tech vs. the EU, Round...We're Losing Count For a city whose symbol is a statue of a naked (or occasionally costumed) peeing child, Brussels doesn't mess around. Yesterday, European Union officials released drafts of two strict new regulations for big tech.  The Digital Markets Act gives companies with extra big reach—45+ million monthly users or 10,000+ business customers—extra attention. These "gatekeepers" would need to disclose planned takeovers, face limits on using data they collect to launch competing products, and avoid favoring their own products on their platforms. Fines for violations could reach up to 10% of annual global revenue. The Digital Services Act would make companies more accountable for illegal content on their platforms, with fines of up to 6% of annual revenue. The walls are closing in This week, the FTC ordered top U.S. tech companies to explain their user data practices, China fined its own tech leaders Alibaba and Tencent over antitrust violations, and the UK proposed fines of up to 10% of global revenue if tech giants don't remove illegal content. Looking ahead...the EU proposals still need to be ratified, which could take a few years. If they become law, they'll likely be Europe's strictest to date. SPONSORED BY DIVERSYFUND We Got You Something This holiday season, we aren’t just passing down our famous eggnog recipe, we’re also passing down the secret to building generational wealth—investing in private real estate with DiversyFund.  DiversyFund opens opportunities for the everyday investor (not just the super rich) to access high value private real estate investing through its non-traded REIT (real estate investment trust).  So while investing in long-term multi-million dollar real estate assets doesn’t fit in a stocking or give you an eggnog-induced buzz, it’s a way better gift than only investing in stocks. That’s because you don’t build generational wealth by just putting everything in the stock market or a savings account, you can do it by diversifying your portfolio into alternatives like DiversyFund’s Growth REIT. Give the holiday gift that keeps giving for generations with DiversyFund today. GOVERNMENT The Next Mayor of Transportationville, USA Giphy President-elect Joe Biden reportedly made his pick for Transportation Secretary yesterday: former mayor of South Bend, IN, Pete Buttigieg.  Remember, it's BOOT-edge-edge—and he's the young one who speaks Norwegian and plays alt-rock on the piano. Thirty-eight-year-old Mayor Pete ran a solid campaign for the Democratic nomination, even scraping out a win in the Iowa caucuses, but eventually dropped out of the race. Buttigieg endorsed Biden and helped him raise money, despite Biden having run an ad mocking Buttigieg's relatively paltry experience.  What Buttigieg will be tasked with: It may be the Rhodes Scholar's toughest assignment yet—bipartisan infrastructure legislation. Biden's plan for climate change, a central plank of his platform, includes a major effort to overhaul the U.S.' crumbling industrial backbone.  More broadly, Buttigieg will manage a nearly $90 billion budget, plus oversee the agencies that regulate railroads, trucking, and aviation. Looking ahead...if his nomination makes it through the Senate, Buttigieg will be the first openly LGBTQ person to become a member of a presidential Cabinet.  SPORTS The NFL Comes to Nick ViacomCBS We're not sure watching football could get more fun than Monday night's Browns-Ravens game, but Nickelodeon is going to try.  On Jan. 10, the network will broadcast an NFL Wild Card game filled with gags aimed at drawing in a younger audience. That means...  A pregame show called "The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special"  Booth commentary from two members of the sketch comedy series All That  Slime superimposed on endzones and googly eyes and other Snapchat-style filters layered over the game  Zoom out: With the all-important TV rights deals for the NFL expiring in 2022, media companies, such as Nickelodeon parent ViacomCBS, are experimenting with new formats to woo the league. NBC, for instance, is tapping khaki influencer and MSNBC journalist Steve Kornacki to evaluate playoff scenarios as he would the electoral college.  Food for thought: Who makes your all-Nickelodeon football roster?  WRs: Drake & Josh TE: Otto from Rocket Power RB: Wanda from The Fairly OddParents Fullback: Invader Zim Football: Hey Arnold's head O-Line: The Rugrats  D-Line: The Wild Thornberrys QB: Aang from Avatar: the Last Airbender Backup QB: Danny Phantom Coaches: Gibby from iCarly, SpongeBob, and Ned from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide HOLIDAY ISO: Christmas Miracle Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images For Christmas market operators, prepping for the holidays is typically a year-long affair. There are spring orders for bespoke glühwein mugs to place, vendor applications to review, city permits to secure, staff to hire. But, as we all know, this wasn't a typical year.  The Brew spoke with operators of four of the U.S.' most iconic Christmas markets about their decisions to proceed in-person or move festivities online, and the devastating impact the pandemic is having on your favorite Christmas ornament artisan. Check out the full story here.  WHAT ELSE IS BREWING MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, disclosed that she donated $4.2 billion to nonprofits over the past four months.  The FDA said Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine was effective and safe in a detailed analysis released yesterday. It could be approved later this week.  The FDA also granted emergency approval for the first over-the-counter Covid-19 test that doesn't need a prescription.  Peter Nygård, the Canadian fashion mogul, was indicted on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a supermax extension with the Milwaukee Bucks for $228.2 million. 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Click to Share Or copy & paste your referral link to others: morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=a17a7110 ANSWER The first is James Bond, the second is Christmas Tree 12/16/2020 I must inform you of something truly abominable! Walmart openly sells Satanic products in its online store. These include Ouija boards, pentagram and inverted-cross pendants and Satanic books, including those written by the notorious Satanist, Anton LeVey. Sign the petition, urging Walmart to remove its demonic products According to reports: "Walmart has come under fire -- the fire of hell -- for selling satanic products...The products include demonic sculptures and figures... numerous products and jewelry with pentagrams and other demonic images, and books that include the Satanic bible and books on spells..." (NCRegister.com) But protests have had effect. After our initial protest, many of the items have come down, or are harder to find! Sign our petition, telling Walmart to stop promoting Satanism Walmart has come under fire of promoting homosexuality by featuring a same-sex "couple" in its advertisement, and now the same "family friendly" company is promoting Satanism. We cannot stand by idle while Satanism and immorality are normalized. We must not allow Walmart to destroy the barriers of horror we still have for Satanism. Please sign our petition, urging Walmart to stop promoting Satanism and immorality. Thank you. 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Flag as irrelevant WEB White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany makes remarks Facebook White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a news briefing. Flag as irrelevant See more results | Edit this alert December 16 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Jane Austen READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1773 Boston Tea Party READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2014: Members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Pakistani branch of the Taliban, attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 150 people, at least 134 of whom were children. 2009: Avatar, a science-fiction thriller directed by James Cameron, was released internationally; it went on to make more than $2.7 billion worldwide. [ Discover how much you know about pop culture.] 1944: In World War II, German forces attempted to push through Allied lines in the Ardennes, beginning the Battle of the Bulge . 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