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America primes for violence as war comes home

David Llewellyn-Smith
Friday 16 October 2026
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War headlines today.

  • Another tanker on fire in Sea of Oman.
  • Trump mulls more bombing, but not before the midterms.
  • Missiles everywhere in Yemen, Saudi.

Dated Brent has eased a little.

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About the author
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.