Top Economist: The Unthinkable is About to Happen to Oil Prices

About this episode

Dr. Steve Keen discusses the impending economic consequences of the US-Iran-Israel escalation and its impact on oil prices and the dollar.

📚 Learn 50+ years of Real Economics in only 7 weeks. Apply here: https://www.stevekeen.com/makingprofitoutofwar (Apply this week and get my 3-Book Rebel Economist Bundle as a Free Bonus. Plus if you're fully approved by my team, get Ravel© - my proprietary economic visualization software I use in my YouTube videos; to predict the economy, like I did years before the 2008 Financial Crash happened). Iran War 2026 | Oil Price Crash, Dollar Collapse & What It Means For Your Money Oil prices are spiking. Inflation isn't going away. And the Middle East is closer to full-scale war than at any point in the last two decades. If you have savings, investments, or just pay bills this affects you directly. In this video, economist Steve Keen whose research on private debt warned of financial instability years before the 2008 financial crisis breaks down the real economic consequences of the US-Iran-Israel escalation in 2026, and what ordinary people should actually be doing with their money right now. This is not a conspiracy video. This is economics. IN THIS VIDEO: ✅ Iran War 2026 — What's actually happening on the ground and why mainstream coverage is missing the bigger economic…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Steve Keen

Topics covered

• oil prices
• Middle East conflict
• economic consequences
• inflation
• financial instability
• de-dollarization

Keywords

• oil price crash
• inflation
• economic visualization
• private debt
• financial crisis
• savings
• investments
• de-dollarization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BRICS

Places: Iran, Israel, United States

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