Today on The Breakdown: Joe Biden rides the inflation dragon, academics get sooky when they can't waste your money on garbage research, and the least self-aware tweet of the year - and we're only at 14 January!

US inflation

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/12/us-inflation-rate-december-2021

ARC funding

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/11/academics-condemn-governments-shortsighted-decision-to-veto-research-grants

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/01/12/sydney-researchers-awarded-arc-funding-for-78-research-projects.html

Lucy Turnbull

https://twitter.com/LucyTurnbull_AO/status/1481356613294641153?s=20