{"id":603140,"date":"2026-04-24T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:57:18","slug":"iran-war-hits-us-economic-confidence-gallup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603140\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war hits US economic confidence: Gallup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have grown more pessimistic about the US economy in the weeks since the US-Israel war with Iran began, underscoring a key challenge for the White House as it looks to blunt the impact of rising gas prices and other goods. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/708713\/americans-economic-confidence-drops-april.aspx\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup\u2019s Economic Confidence Index<\/a> dropped 11 points since March, reaching its lowest point since November 2023, when the Biden administration was grappling with stubborn inflation. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3f02011c7a656bfff76b533441dbdeae7d895e63-1820x1844.png\"  alt=\"A chart showing Americans\u2019 changing outlook on the economy, based on polling\" width=\"740\" height=\"749\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_imageEmbed_1jdgl_38 _fullContentArea_1jdgl_42\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Confidence in the economy is dipping across political parties, too, with Republicans\u2019 confidence score dropping 15 points between March and April. Forty-seven percent of US adults say the current economic conditions are poor, while only 21% call them excellent or good. And there\u2019s little optimism about the future: 73% say the economy is getting worse, while 53% say it\u2019s a bad time to invest in the stock market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans have grown more pessimistic about the US economy in the weeks since the US-Israel war with Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-603140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}