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What's your take on the oil price situation right now. And are you concerned. I love it.It dropped almost ten dollars yesterday. I put out a statement, get it down, because a lot of people aren't able to do things when the energy goes down. You are going to have a lot less conflict.President Trump there speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One. And separately, the President has signaled he wants to keep oil flowing out of Iran. It's a stark departure from the earlier strategy of squeezing Iranian energy e ...

Joining us now is Arjun Mertie. He is partner for energy macro and policy at energy consultancy Veritin and former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs. Arjun, welcome.So does lawyer lower oil today just reflect that investors believe Iran has been defanged. I think that's right. I mean, keep in mind, we probably had built as much as a 15 to20 dollar per barrel premium in oil over the last week versus where we were trading pre-Israel Iran and we're now in the process of eliminating that and I think the market is ...

Joining us now is our former vice chair, Alan Blinder. Allan, good to have you. Uh, tariffs going to be what would one would imagine an important sort of focus certainly in the press conference.Where do you stand in terms of the inflationary impact of tariffs, which we have yet to really see in any significance. Is it still coming. I I think it's still coming.I I stand exactly where you are that we haven't seen much from the tariffs yet. The tariffs have been announced, unannounced, announced, unannounced. ...

I just laid out a laundry list of potential catalysts and factors at play. Can you tell us why the markets are not reacting more forcefully to everything going on domestically and abroad. I it's really quite a moment when you look at the constellation of of geopolitical risks.But one thing that I can say with the perspective of covering geopolitics and markets for 25 years is that the perceived importance of Middle East conflict and its relationship to the oil price has um declined over time. But I think in ...

I want to start with the worst case scenario, something that most analysts are saying isn't really likely. Let's say there is a complete disruption to Iranian oil supply and a closure of the Strait of Hormuz. How high does the oil price rise.Morning. Yeah, I think fair to say that's not a base case, but if you're talking about really extreme scenarios, we've considered a case where even if only very temporary, oil prices could get, for example, above $200 a barrel. And if you're just looking at historic rel ...