{"id":3909,"date":"2006-01-22T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2006-01-22T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:09:00","slug":"petrodollars-and-the-iranian-oil-bourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"PetroDollars and the Iranian Oil Bourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good, hard headed and sober analysis pouring cold water on the conspiracy theory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econbrowser.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/strange_ideas_a.html\">here<\/a>; taking aim at an analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/energybulletin.net\/12125.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/world-war-three-by-easter.html\">writing about this before<\/a>, I&#8217;ve grown more sceptical &#8211; but I&#8217;m not yet completely convinced that it will have no effect on the exchange rate of the dollar.<\/p>\n<p>As much as anything else, I see it as having a psychological effect &#8211; knocking the dollar off its pedestal &#8211; and along with many other reasons for dollar weakness, I can see it contributing to a more or less gentle decline in dollar value. <\/p>\n<p>We shall see.<\/p>\n<p><i>UPDATE: see also <a href=\"http:\/\/strategyunit.blogsome.com\/2006\/01\/21\/iran-crisis-another-war-for-oil-bourse-and-the-us-dollar\/\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good, hard headed and sober analysis pouring cold water on the conspiracy theory here; taking aim at an analysis here. Since writing about this before, I&#8217;ve grown more sceptical &#8211; but I&#8217;m not yet completely convinced that it will have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crisis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-113","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}