Assessing the Iran War's "structural damage" with Harvard economist Gita Gopinath
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
GZERO Media
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the G0 World Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | This is where you'll find extended versions of my interviews on public television. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Ian Bremmer, and today we are talking about what feels like a hinge moment for the global economy. |
| 0:14.0 | First, there's trade. |
| 0:16.0 | More than a year after the United States launched sweeping tariffs across much of the world, |
| 0:20.0 | the aftershocks are still reverberating. Even efforts by the United States launched sweeping tariffs across much of the world, the aftershocks |
| 0:21.2 | are still reverberating. Even efforts by the United States Supreme Court that diluted parts |
| 0:26.3 | of Donald Trump's agenda haven't reversed the bigger shift. The system the United States spent |
| 0:31.4 | decades building a predictable, rules-based economic order, giving way to something more fragmented, |
| 0:37.2 | more politicized, and far |
| 0:38.7 | more uncertain. And now there's the Iran War and the energy crunch that comes with it. |
| 0:44.6 | Fuel prices around the world are surging, and after living through one of the most severe |
| 0:48.6 | inflation spikes in recent memory during Joe Biden's presidency, Americans will soon be facing renewed price pressure. |
| 0:56.0 | So to Europe, which not that long ago overcame a different energy shock spurred by Russia's |
| 1:01.0 | full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It's all something I get into with Gita Gopanath, former first deputy |
| 1:07.0 | managing director and chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. |
| 1:11.5 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:26.4 | GEDAGO. GEDAGO, Enoch, welcome to GZero World. |
| 1:28.4 | It's a pleasure, Ian. |
| 1:29.7 | So earlier this year, I think it was at Davos, |
| 1:32.1 | you said everything in the world economy has changed. |
| 1:36.6 | And of course, that was before we saw even more change with the war in the Middle East. |
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