Are investors getting the Iran conflict wrong? With Robin Brooks

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  After threatening war on Iran for weeks, on February 28th, President Donald Trump followed through.

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  Along with Israel, the US attacked Iran.

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  Iran hit back, including America's regional allies.

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  More than a thousand Iranians are reported dead.

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  Now, war is obviously a human tragedy, but since this is The Economics Show,

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  today I'm going to be asking just how bad the economic fallout of the war could be.

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  This is the economics show with Samaya Keynes.

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  I'm joined this week by Robin Brooks,

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  a senior fellow in the global economy and development program at the Brookings Institution,

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  who is speaking to me from...

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  Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC.

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  Robin, hello.

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  It's great to be with you, Samaya.

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  Big fan of yours.

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  Well, I'm so happy that you're on the show.

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  Okay, before we begin,

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  I should timestamp this recording as happening at 2pm Greenwich Mean Time on Wednesday,

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  March the 4th.

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  As you know, on this show, we always start with a slightly silly question.

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  So on a scale of one to ten,

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