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Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences
Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences By now the impacts of supply chain disruption are becoming all too familiar: shortages, inflation, factory closures, goods waiting at ports to be unloaded. All these impacts are serious enough, but another more-hidden concern lurks just beneath the surface: the impact of supply chain failure on national security, […]
World Bank Warns Global Economy “Perilously Close To Falling Into Recession”
World Bank Warns Global Economy “Perilously Close To Falling Into Recession” Six months ago, The World Bank slashed its global growth outlook for 2022 and 2023 to +2.9% and +3.0% respectively blaming “the war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China, supply-chain disruptions, and the risk of stagflation” for hammering growth. Today, in its latest report on global economic […]
UK Households Struggle As Inflation Hits 30-Year High, New Taxes Kick In
UK Households Struggle As Inflation Hits 30-Year High, New Taxes Kick In Millions of Britons who previously found themselves financially ‘comfortable’ are feeling the heat over accelerating inflation, record energy bills, and tax increases which kick in this year. A food bank for military veterans in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. The Food Foundation survey found that 16% of people surveyed […]
“The System Is Broken”: Boots-on-the-Ground View by a US Manufacturer on the Supply Chain Chaos
“The System Is Broken”: Boots-on-the-Ground View by a US Manufacturer on the Supply Chain Chaos “We are simply limited to what our suppliers tell us we can have. It really isn’t supposed to work this way!” For what seems like a long time now, Wolf Street has been discussing the apparently never-ending shortages that US […]
Rickards: Bad News, I’m Afraid
Rickards: Bad News, I’m Afraid The breakdown of global supply chains is well-known by now. Whether it’s finding groceries in your supermarket, buying a new car or buying appliances like dishwashers and refrigerators, goods are scarce. Also, deliveries take forever and choices are limited. Many people wonder why the problem isn’t going away. Here’s the […]
Despotism Is the New Normal: Looming Threats to Freedom in 2022
Despotism Is the New Normal: Looming Threats to Freedom in 2022 “Looking at the present, I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they […]
Globalism’s Achilles’ Heel
Globalism’s Achilles’ Heel Supply chain disruptions have not been resolved, and it’s not clear when they will be. You’re seeing the effects of these disruptions at the store in the forms of shortages and higher prices. Yet the supply chain is a subject that very few are familiar with beyond a superficial acquaintance. Most people […]
#219. The unravelling begins
#219. The unravelling begins THE REALITY OF SCARCITY, THE SCARCITY OF REALITY In nineteenth-century England, pictures of great events and famous personages could be purchased “penny-plain or tuppence-coloured”. Where the world economy is concerned, the price of flattering colouration has soared into the trillions, but the value of a “penny-plain” view has never been higher. The […]
The Great Supply Chain Collapse
The Great Supply Chain Collapse What’s at the root of the supply chain breakdown? That’s a critical question but the answer is almost irrelevant. The supply chain is a complex dynamic system of immense scale. It is of a complexity comparable to the climate as a system. This means that exact cause and effect cannot […]
Global supply chain crisis could last another two years, warn experts
Global supply chain crisis could last another two years, warn experts As some bottlenecks ease others are just starting, meaning the post-pandemic economy ‘won’t return to normal any time soon’ China’s Ningbo Zhoushan port in Zhejiang province, a key shipping hub. A new Covid outbreak in the region has raised fears of further delays in […]
Food Insecurity: The exacerbating factors
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/food-insecurity-the-exacerbating-factors/
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. […]
Relief from High Prices Unlikely, Analysts Say Ahead of Consumer Inflation Data Release
A customer shops for meat at a Safeway store in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 4, 2021. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Relief from High Prices Unlikely, Analysts Say Ahead of Consumer Inflation Data Release With investors closely eyeing two major data releases this week on inflation—one on producer input costs and the other on consumer prices—Wells Fargo […]
The Mainstream Has the Inflation Story Backwards
The Mainstream Has the Inflation Story Backwards The mainstream blames inflation on “supply chain bottlenecks.” But they have it completely backward. In reality, Federal Reserve-created inflation is causing the supply chain mess. According to Biden administration talking points, the economy is booming. Americans are flush with cash. And they are demanding lots of goods. The […]
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 […]
