U.S. Air Force tech awarded

President Donald Trump presents Valerie Nessel, widow of Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman, with the posthumous Medal of Honor for her husband during a ceremony in East Room of the White House on Wednesday. Chapman died in Afghanistan in March 2002 at the battle of Takur Ghar.

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On Wednesday, Chapman posthumously became the first member of the Air Force since the Vietnam War to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor in combat. In a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, President Donald Trump credited him with fighting to the death and then handed a frame holding the award to Chapman’s widow, Valerie Nessel.

“In that final act of supreme courage, John gave his life for his fellow warriors,” Trump said. “Through his extraordinary

sacrifice, John helped save more than 20 American service members, some of whom are here today.”

The ceremony brought to a close a years-long discussion of whether Chapman had been appropriately recognized for his valor. The Air Force combat controller, already wounded, was alone in his last hour after Navy SEALS fighting alongside him withdrew under fire to assist wounded colleagues, the Air Force found in 2016. The SEALS thought he was dead, they later said.

Making America great again isn’t proving so great for other parts of the world.

With the rise in the dollar and interest rates already squeezing emerging economies just as President Donald Trump’s trade war threatens China, the U.S. is set to be the only Group of Seven nation to see economic growth accelerate this year as Trump’s tax cuts kick in.

The end of the shortlived euphoria of a synchronized global upswing is already evident in financial markets.

Natwest Markets notes its basket of so-called growth assets such as the Australian dollar and copper is down about 4.5 percent this year compared with the almost seven percent gain of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

The gap in performance “certainly captures the imbalanced nature of growth this year,” said Jim Mccormick, head of cross-asset strategy at Natwest.

The global backdrop will frame discussions when the Federal Reserve holds its annual policy symposium this week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at which Chairman Jerome