{"id":614206,"date":"2026-04-19T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:02:19","slug":"hank-paulson-says-the-us-will-weather-iran-war-fallout-better-than-anyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614206\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Paulson Says the US Will Weather Iran War Fallout Better Than Anyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Welcome to the Wall Street Week newsletter, bringing you stories of capitalism about things you need to know, but even more things you need to think about. I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/ABxd1SABRNI\/david-westin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">David Westin<\/a>, and this week Hank Paulson took us through the economics of the Iran war, and we looked into whether the rich are paying their fair share of taxes. If you\u2019re not yet a subscriber, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/wall-street-week?source=wswintro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">sign up here for<\/a> this newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">As world financial leaders met in Washington this week, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson gave us his analysis of what the war means for them and for us. Recognizing that it depends on \u201chow long it\u2019s going to take,\u201d Paulson focused on \u201cinflationary pressure,\u201d saying \u201cit\u2019s not good for the US economy, but we will weather it better than anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Wall Street Week newsletter, bringing you stories of capitalism about things you need to know,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,95,76334,548,46,5897,100,3430,231071,8909,6495,8767,3642],"class_list":["post-614206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-david-westin","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-iran","tag-markets","tag-new-york","tag-tax-code","tag-taxes","tag-wall-street","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}