Steve Hanke: What Everyone Is Getting Wrong on Iran War, The Commodity Super Cycle & Gold
Stijn Schmitz welcomes Steve Hanke to the show. Steve Hanke is Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Hanke highlights the two major wars—the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran and the Ukraine war—as critical disruptors of global commodity flows. He notes that the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, with Iran controlling it, and the Houthis threaten the Red Sea chokepoint, severely constricting crude and refined product supplies. Russia’s cutoff of diesel exports and domestic fuel shortages compound the strain. Oil markets are in backwardation, with spot prices above…
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