{"id":41470,"date":"2026-03-20T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41470"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:54:51","slug":"francis-kim-writes-article-about-oil-related-impacts-on-u-s-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/francis-kim-writes-article-about-oil-related-impacts-on-u-s-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Kim writes article about oil-related impacts on U.S. dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/news\/2026-03-19\/englishStudy\/bilingualNews\/Strong-dollar-and-high-oil-prices-risk-triggering-liquidity-crisis-KOR\/2548458?detailWord=\">Korea JoongAng Daily<\/a>, Furman University Associate Professor of Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/francis-kim\/\">Francis Kim<\/a> offers a historical backdrop for changes in the dollar index and\u00a0rising oil prices following the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. Kim, a regular contributor to JoongAng Daily, traces oil-related volatility for the U.S. dollar from the 1970s, through the 1980s, the dot-com bubble, the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. Fed tightening measures in 2022, and to present day. He writes, &#8220;U.S. airstrikes on Iran have pushed oil prices above $100 per barrel, while the dollar index hovers around 100. With global financial stress rising rapidly, the risk of a liquidity crunch is increasing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Associate Professor of Finance Francis Kim is a regular contributor for Korea JoongAng Daily. He offers historical context for the U.S. dollar and rising oil prices following the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-accounting","category-korea-joongang-daily"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41473,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41470\/revisions\/41473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}