{"podcast":{"title":"Foreign Policy Live","slug":"foreign-policy-live-720323","podcast_index_feed_id":720323,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/FGP8797000077","website_url":"https://foreignpolicy.com/live/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/0adf9dec-9034-11ed-97d1-fb287b1d78b0/image/FP-Live-podcast-logo-3000x3000.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Foreign Policy","episode_count":223,"summary":"Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading foreign-policy thinkers and practitioners to analyze a key issue in global politics, from the U.S.-China relationship to conflict and diplomacy. FP Live is your weekly fix for smart thinking about the world. Foreign Policy magazine subscribers can watch these interviews live and submit questions and suggestions by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/live/.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T08:19:02.848019+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foreign-policy-live-720323"},"episode":{"title":"How Much Will the Iran Conflict Hurt the Global Economy?","slug":"how-much-will-the-iran-conflict-hurt-the-global-economy","published_at":"2026-04-29T18:37:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foreign-policy-live-720323/how-much-will-the-iran-conflict-hurt-the-global-economy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foreign-policy-live-720323","url":"https://mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/FGP8590720691.mp3?updated=1777488133","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/FGP8590720691.mp3?updated=1777488133","summary":"The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is like a ticking time bomb for the global economy, disrupting the flow of energy and rippling through industries from agriculture to semiconductors. How bad could it get? The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global growth this year from 3.4 percent to 3.1 percent in the best-case scenario and 2 percent in the worst case. What countries will be the most affected, and what can they do to protect themselves? Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard University who was formerly the first deputy managing director of the IMF, joins FP Live to discuss. IMF’s World Economic Outlook: Global Economy in the Shadow of War Ravi Agrawal: The World Is Paying the Price for America’s War Keith Johnson: Why Iran Isn’t Blinking Yet Jason Bordoff and Spencer Dale: Making the U.S. More Resilient to Oil Price Shocks Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is like a ticking time bomb for the global economy, disrupting the flow of energy and rippling through industries from…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1915,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/foreign-policy-live-720323/episodes/how-much-will-the-iran-conflict-hurt-the-global-economy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foreign-policy-live-720323/how-much-will-the-iran-conflict-hurt-the-global-economy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}