{"id":95582,"date":"2026-09-10T18:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95582"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:16:02","slug":"things-are-getting-worse-very-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/10\/things-are-getting-worse-very-rapidly\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are getting worse -very rapidly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the FT's Brent oil price chart tonight:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-95583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-18.07.48-550x659.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-18.07.48-550x659.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-18.07.48-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-18.07.48-768x920.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-18.07.48-334x400.png 334w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-18.07.48.png 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The price has hit $107 and is skyrocketing out of control again. This time, that is rational. Trump's war is creating shortages that are driving these price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Economicallty, things are going to get much worse, as I have been warning for many months, and the signs are that things are now exploding.<\/p>\n<p>I am very worried. I might have predicted this, but I take no satisfaction from it happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the FT&#8217;s Brent oil price chart tonight: The price has hit $107 and is skyrocketing out of control again. This time, that is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/10\/things-are-getting-worse-very-rapidly\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95584,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95582\/revisions\/95584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}