{"id":453397,"date":"2026-05-17T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453397\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:32:12","slug":"never-mind-the-yeah-buts-heres-why-the-gulf-war-wont-mess-up-the-irish-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453397\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind the \u2018yeah buts\u2019 \u2013 here\u2019s why the Gulf war won\u2019t mess up the Irish economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We have nothing to fear from the US-Iran war but fear itself. Yeah, but&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The view from Muscat, Oman, as bulk carriers and tankers sit at anchor. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/-DEALS (2) (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The view from Muscat, Oman, as bulk carriers and tankers sit at anchor. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">My April column, on why the Iran war won\u2019t hurt economies or spike oil prices for long, unleashed many \u201cYeah, but\u201d reactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cYeah, but what if peace talks fail?\u201d \u201cYeah, but won\u2019t the Tehran tollbooth raise oil prices?\u201d \u201cYeah, but won\u2019t inflation skyrocket?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have nothing to fear from the US-Iran war but fear itself. Yeah, but&#8230; The view from Muscat,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,969,61,11829,60,25599,812],"class_list":["post-453397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-us-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}