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Should we be putting this on recording? Well, let's start. This is the fifth in our series, the Wolf Krugman Exchange. I'm Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times. And I'm Paul Krugman, professor at the City University of New York and author of an independent Substack newsletter. And today's episode is being recorded on Monday, June 30th, uh, at 9 in the morning in Massachusetts, where I am now, and 2 p.m. in London. Um, tell us where you've been recently, Paul. Yeah. Um, um, occasio ...

On this episode of Market Sense, we are talking with Fidelity leaders about what the escalating conflict in the Middle East could mean for oil prices, the markets, and the global economy. Topics covered: • Iran Conflict • Middle East • Oil prices • Global economy • Tax bill 01:05: Conflict in the Middle East 02:27: Market reaction 05:25: Future market impact? 07:31: Managing portfolios & geopolitics 10:22: Oil prices: short and long-term 14:00: Oil prices and inflation 16:02: Global reaction 17:12: Internat ...

about the oil price shock that you mentioned because I've seen two arguments really emerge on Wall Street. One, if we have a sustained increase in oil like you were alluding to, we could see this upward pressure of inflation that could trickle through into gas prices which we know have been pretty stable. That's been helping the consumer right now.On the opposite side of that, that could also dent growth which could lead to maybe a deceleration of the labor market and then that would force the Fed to act mo ...

This is a marble. It's small. It's light. It's only a few grams.It's quite harmless in my hand. But if we were to place this marble in orbit, it would suddenly gain 8 kilometers per second of speed. That's 8 kilometers per second.Think about it. That's around 20 times faster than a bullet. It will take this marble less than 10 minutes to travel from London to New York.And even something this tiny and innocent could cause a disaster. Why. Well, at those speeds, it's not only about the size. It's also about t ...

We're back now on closing bell. Joining me now is Alian's chief economic adviser, Muhammad Alian. It's good to see you and thank you so much for being with us.Muhammad, how should our investing audience be thinking about this. Well, first, as you said, Scott, and thanks for having me. Lots of ifs.Having said that, I think there's four clear things in my mind in terms of the economic effects. One, this will accelerate the ongoing slowing of the global economy. Two, it will limit policy flexibility even more, ...