{"id":489178,"date":"2026-05-17T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489178\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:20:14","slug":"never-mind-the-yeah-buts-heres-why-the-gulf-war-wont-mess-up-the-irish-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489178\/","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.europesays.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":489179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,356,18,19,18929,17,26765,1543],"class_list":{"0":"post-489178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-us-politics","15":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116589889674103767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}