About this episode

The episode discusses the political and economic implications of the Iran war and critiques media coverage and public opinion.

Obviously, that hasn’t come to pass. There’s little doubt that congressional Democrats who’ve attacked Trump’s every move in this Iran war would be praising a Democrat president who had the foresight and courage to do so on his watch. None did, but if one had, most patriotic Republicans would have surely cheered him on. As for the dominant liberal media, the negative spin in their news stories and commentary about the war have been blatantly dishonest about this overwhelmingly successful campaign. From the very start of the war the stock market plunged, crude oil prices and gasoline at the pump spiked, and an uptick in the CPI signaled price inflation. This was to be expected. The market hates shocks and uncertainty and is very short-sighted. But this war is for long-term security. Stock prices have already recovered, and gas is up less than a buck-a-gallon, that’s still lower than it was during Bidenflation. This isn’t a large-scale war and not likely to last very long. Sacrifices to consumers will be trivial compared to WW II when rationing stamps were issued to all Americans for four long years limiting meat, butter, dairy, coffee, gasoline, coal, tires, cars, shoes, nylon…

People in this episode

Host: Independence Institute

Topics covered

• Iran war
• political commentary
• media analysis
• public opinion
• economic impact

Keywords

• Iran war
• Trump
• Biden
• media bias
• public opinion
• economic impact
• stock market
• inflation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Independence Institute

Places: Iran

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