{"id":469,"date":"2026-03-23T00:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/?p=469"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:06:20","slug":"the-current-war-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/2026\/03\/23\/the-current-war-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-491\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-491 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"photograph of Heather Long, the Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist,\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-1024x900.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-1536x1350.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-2048x1800.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Long, the Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At our Chapter meeting April 1, 2026,\u00a0 we had Heather Long, the Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist, speak to us.\u00a0 She is widely known for spotting trends early and making economic news accessible to all.\u00a0 <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\">Educated at Wellesley College, BA in economics and English and at Oxford University, master\u2019s in financial economics and medieval literature. <\/span>\u00a0 She is often heard on radio, television, and in podcasts.\u00a0 Her presentation was entitled \u201cthe War Economy\u201d.\u00a0 She discussed the effects of the current military conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Annandale VA chapter 1159 meeting April 1, 2026 at 9:30am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/2026-04-01-Heather-Long-speaker-use-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}