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Critical minerals problem: Supply chain issues come to the fore
Critical minerals problem: Supply chain issues come to the fore It seems that all of a sudden there is talk of mineral shortages and two metals which are thought to be plentiful in the Earth’s crust, nickel and zinc, have been added to the list of minerals now deemed critical to the United States, a list recently […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV Athens, Greece (1984) Photo by author ***** Supply chain disruptions and the product shortages that result have become a growing concern over the past couple of years and the reasons for these are as varied as the people providing the ‘analysis’. Production delays. Covid-19 pandemic. Pent-up consumer demand. Central bank […]
Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains
Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains The real trouble will start when this year’s energy crisis morphs into next year’s food inflation problem. We’ve all become armchair inflation experts. And why not? It’s almost impossible for anyone to keep getting it as systematically incorrect as professional economists have done this year. It’s time for the […]
Food Insecurity: The exacerbating factors
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/food-insecurity-the-exacerbating-factors/
Supermarkets Alter Layouts, Use Decoys to Fill Gaps Left by Shortages
Supermarkets Alter Layouts, Use Decoys to Fill Gaps Left by Shortages While chaos reigns in supply chains, grocery stores are trying to present an appealing and seemingly organized front for customers. To do so, some are turning to age-old tricks of the trade, and developing new ones, to cover up gaps on the shelves. That […]
Supply Chain Disruptions Will Continue
Supply Chain Disruptions Will Continue Forty percent of all the cargo into the United States comes through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Offshore, there are thousands of containers stacked up on vessels waiting to get in. How many containers can the ports unload on a normal day? New containers are coming in. […]
Farmers Wait Weeks For John Deere Parts As Strikes Paralyze Midwest Factories
Farmers Wait Weeks For John Deere Parts As Strikes Paralyze Midwest Factories Multiple John Deere dealerships report part delays for tractors and heavy equipment amid an ongoing strike of more than 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers union at 12 of Deere’s Midwest factories and facilities, according to Bloomberg. Dealerships note that customers face weeks-long […]
Revenge of the Real World
Revenge of the Real World The status quo response would be amusing if the consequences weren’t so dire. Rather than stare at empty shelves, you have two options for distraction: you can don a virtual-reality headset and cavort with dolphins in the metaverse, or you can trade various forms of phantom wealth that always go up (happy happy!) because […]
No Trucking Way
No Trucking Way The financial economy and real economy used to live with each other happily: now they are in a long-distance relationship reliant on logistics to keep in touch. What happens when those logistics break down? (Very bad things, as I was discussing here the other day.) We have covered the ocean-carrier side of this […]
China Rations Diesel Amid Nationwide Fuel Shortages
China Rations Diesel Amid Nationwide Fuel Shortages
‘Your grocery stores are like museums’: Then and now
‘Your grocery stores are like museums’: Then and now About 15 years ago I helped to host a group of Russian entrepreneurs during one stop on their tour of the United States, a tour sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. As we hosts accompanied our visitors, we naturally fell into conversation with them. One of […]
The Fed’s Inflation Is behind the Supply Chain Mess
The Fed’s Inflation Is behind the Supply Chain Mess It seems supporters of the Biden administration finally settled on a narrative they like for explaining away supply chain shortages. Here’s the administration’s talking point: the US economy is rolling along so well that Americans are demanding huge amounts of goods. That’s overwhelming the supply chain and […]
Intermission: The Machine Stops?
Intermission: The Machine Stops? ‘I have seen the hills of Wessex.’ “The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the […]
There’s No ‘Supply-Chain Shortage,’ Or Inflation. There’s Just Central Planning
There’s No ‘Supply-Chain Shortage,’ Or Inflation. There’s Just Central Planning It’s great that so many have copies of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, but very unfortunate that so few have read it. The alleged “supply chain” problems we’re enduring right now were explained by Smith in the book’s opening pages. Smith wrote about a pin […]
