{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/633b3ddf2ce407001121c7e5/6505c932ccb2760011d29a3e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Oil heading towards $100 may mean the good news on inflation is over. With more bad news on interest rates to come.","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/633b3ddf2ce407001121c7e5/1694878097291-2bca783cddcbf45960b9cdc5a37658a4.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>US inflation rose again last month: is the good news over? The Saudi-Russian alliance seems determined to get oil prices up to $100. That could mean €2+ for a litre or petrol and/or diesel. </p><p><br></p><p>Interest rates look to be in 'higher for longer mode'. There is nothing good that flows from $100 oil - other than an economic slowdown/recession that will cut fossil fuel consumption &amp; help, a little, the environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Putin is building a new friendship circle, including fellow megalomaniacs from N. Korea and mad mullahs from Tehran.</p><p><br></p><p>The advice to the next government everywhere, including UK, US and Ireland, is the same: build more houses. In the UK and Ireland that's gonna need big reforms of the planning system. </p><p><br></p><p>Comedians - and serious journalists - are starting to tell jokes about Sunak's chances of winning the next general election. </p><p><br></p><p>Are Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's D4 brothers-in-arms helping to shutter a 112 year-old cricket club?</p><p>  </p>","author_name":"Jim Power & Chris Johns"}