Economic Echoes of the Strait of Hormuz
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mia discusses the dire economic effects of the blockade across Asia and why the ripples haven’t reached the markets.
Sources:
https://thelensnola.org/2026/04/01/how-the-iran-war-is-disrupting-the-worlds-medicine-supplies/
https://eastasiaforum.org/2026/04/16/the-iran-war-widens-indonesias-fiscal-faultlines/
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| 0:47.5 | Welcome to a Gen here, a podcast about things falling apart and, although not today, putting them back together again. |
| 0:55.2 | Today, we are going to be talking about some of the ways in which the world is falling apart and the ways that they've been invisibleized. Now, there are obviously a wide and broad variety of ways in which the world |
| 1:04.0 | is coming to pieces, but one of them is the impact of the continued dual blockade now of the Strait of Wormuz. |
| 1:12.7 | The sense you get reading the papers, if you were looking at the economic reality of the |
| 1:19.3 | situation, is that everything is broadly fine. The economic impacts have been less bad than |
| 1:24.8 | expected. The economy is proving more resilient. |
| 1:29.0 | Economies, particularly in East Asia, are hanging on better than predicted. China has been resilient. |
| 1:34.1 | America has been resilient. Trump will eventually back down, which will head off the worst-case |
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