Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics puts the cost at $2,000 per household, or $265 billion nationwide, since the war began Feb. 28, per The Hill and Newsweek. About $1,100 is higher energy costs, CNN reports; $540 is higher interest rates and $360 is military spending, per Benzinga. Zandi says the total has absorbed about half the average household's income gain over the past eight months. It is his own estimate, posted on X Monday, Oct. 12; Moody's has not published the method.
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Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi estimates the Iran war has cost the average US household $2,000 so far.
An estimate explicitly attributed to Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics. The Hill, CNN, Benzinga and others carry the same figure, so it is not single-sourced. It is still a model estimate rather than measured data.
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The $2,000 cost is about half of what households gained in income over the past eight months.
The story attributes this to Zandi ('Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics says'). It is his framing and comparison, and no independent income data in the sources backs it up.