{"id":350844,"date":"2026-03-27T16:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350844\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:33:14","slug":"in-the-room-stockpiling-fuel-and-panic-buying-loo-roll-are-we-prepped-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350844\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Room | Stockpiling fuel and panic buying loo roll \u2013 are we prepped for war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the war in the Middle East continues, there are fears there could be a global recession over oil prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, warned crude oil prices could rise to as high as $150 a barrel, a move that could push the global economy into a recession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This week on In The Room, ex-deputy cabinet secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/helen-macnamara\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Helen MacNamara;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Helen MacNamara&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Helen MacNamara<\/a> and former No 10 special advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/cleo-watson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleo Watson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cleo Watson&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cleo Watson<\/a> take a look at if the UK is prepared for any of this. Or should we all start stock-piling loo rolls just in case?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/podcasts\/intheroom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:In The Room;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;In The Room&quot;}\" class=\"link \">In The Room<\/a> drop every Friday. You can listen on <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fin-the-room%2Fid1875349411&amp;articleId=b2933323&amp;key=5b1a6400a3c0d931ed2037885e1a27a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple Podcasts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple Podcasts&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/51uiRVMiB5vzq0fZQNiyEf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spotify&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Spotify<\/a>, or watch on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@InTheRoomPolitics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube&quot;}\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the war in the Middle East continues, there are fears there could be a global recession over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[146280,138,219,5617,64070,34199,111,139,69,25033,186009],"class_list":["post-350844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-blackrock-ceo","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-global-economy","tag-global-recession","tag-larry-fink","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oil-prices","tag-war-in-the-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}