Paul Hannan
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first heard Jun 2026
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WSJ What’s News · U.S. Strikes Iran to Block New Sea Mines in Strait of Hormuz · 31 Aug 2026
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His job is to make sure or try to make sure that all the regulators are working together to preserve the stability of the global financial system.
You know, that they're making sure that their financial institutions do not act as a weak link in a global effort to allow this technology to be developed for good without doing really severe harm.
you know, we've seen some recent instances in which they've escaped sandboxes and decided to hack into the systems of other institutions, and that sort of thing really worries financial regulators.
I think it's more of an outlier, although it does underline the fact that we live in very, very uncertain times and you can't discount anything, really.
I think it would take quite a lot for one of the larger central banks to move at this point in time.
But there are people who think that the Fed could be one of the surprise packages this time around.
There's a one in three chance priced into the markets at the moment that it will actually raise interest rates, which is not nothing.
That's a significant probability.
Yeah, I mean, you have to let people know that that response is possible if that scenario plays out.
And I think they've really been doing that ever since the war started.
I mean, this is beginning to be a little bit of a ritual where, with some exceptions, you sort of leave things as they are, but make it clear that you could do something in the future if the worst were to happen.
The last week has sort of underlined why there hasn't been so much action, because you do get these moments where it looks very much like the Strait of Hormuz is closed for a long time, followed by periods of time in which it looks like it's set for an imminent reopening.
And these policymakers are really thinking about how prices are going to change over the next year to two years.
So trying to get that call right when you have so much volatility from one day to the next is extremely difficult.
And the best option is often to just wait.
They have, and this is beginning to worry, I think, a lot of policymakers.
The European Central Bank earlier this week published a note saying that, in its view, the buffers that have so far protected the global economy from this rise in energy prices were being run down.
Strategic reserves do not last forever.
At some point, you can't switch away from using fossil fuels.
So far, a lot of households in Asia, for example, have been able to do that, but it reaches a limit.
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