Risk turns off as Trump pushes BIG RED BUTTON

Friday, 7 April 2017

The standing joke that is the BONDCANO just got laughed at a little louder as Donald Trump pushed the BIG RED BUTTON:

Pentagon officials told NBC News on Thursday that dozens of Tomahawk missiles targeted a Syrian military air field near Homs tied to the chemical weapons strike this week, which activists said killed at least 100 people — including 25 children.

The Trump administration had hinted at military action against Syria as top officials considered how to retaliate against President Bashar Assad for the chemical attack.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.