Jon Quast
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first heard Oct 2025
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And it looks like they may sign that deal in Switzerland on Friday.
Hopefully that is the case.
But as we think about this as terms of what this does, obviously it ends the conflict.
That is really good from a human life perspective.
But the main economic benefit is regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
The Strait of Hormuz, so much passes through that little narrow part of that waterway.
And it's been not working very well since this conflict began.
But it seems like maybe we can get this straight reopened.
So, Rachel, if the straight was fully reopened, let's just pretend it's going to be fully reopened today as a result of this deal.
How long would it take before we start catching back up from it being closed all this time to begin with?
Yeah.
And so just to be clear, we're talking about the traffic in the strait.
That's going to, according to, I mean, some of Rachel's, what she's been researching is going to take several months at a minimum.
And I guess I think that for some of our listeners, they're vaguely aware that maybe they're paying a little bit more at the pump than what they would like to be paying as a result of what has been going on.
The fact that oil can't ship freely through that strait.
I've got a summer road trip coming up where I'm going to be putting a lot of gallons of gas in the tank.
Does this mean that we're not going to see any relief at the pump anytime soon?
Yeah, that is such a good point because this isn't the first time that it felt like maybe we could see the light at the end of the tunnel, that maybe there was finally a framework to end the conflict only for that to fall through.
So Matt, I do want to ask you here about confidence because it's one thing to have potentially the deal signed in Switzerland this Friday, but does that mean that everyone has the confidence to go ahead and start acting on it?
Well, let's pretend that it is going to go through.
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