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I hate to tell you...but until we get supply chains for lots of stuff from SOMEWHERE up and running (and I don’t meant cheap plastic crap), it won’t make any difference to many businesses whether they’re open or not.

Already seeing issues with spare parts availability at our local hardware store.

Ditto the freezer situation I mentioned in the previous thread.

Once the appliance manufacturers run out of the electronic components to ‘make’ the appliances (here or elsewhere) it won’t make a difference if thie appliance stores are open or not.

No freezers to be found in a 100m radius of my house right now. And that includes a major metropolitan area and several smaller cities.

When those freezers get restocked again is anyone’s guess at this point.

Here is a good site for statistical analysis of China’s export volumes: Port Of Long Beach

https://www.polb.com/business/port-statistics#latest-statistics

“No freezers to be found in a 100m radius of my house right now. And that includes a major metropolitan area and several smaller cities...When those freezers get restocked again is anyone’s guess at this point.”

This is what we feared from the beginning - having an extra chest freezer is nice, but I suspect that most homes (and certainly most apartments) have but a SINGLE refer. What happens when that breaks, and there are no parts to fix it, and no new refers to replace it?

Like it or not, the country is now heading backwards in development and the longer it takes Trump and his people to figure it out and actually DO ANYTHING (such as deregulating, big time, and shutting down unions) the further backwards we’ll end up. So far, I have yet to see anything specific (such as the temporary elimination of efficiency requirements on appliances, for example). Maybe it’s out there, but I haven’t seen it.

Maybe if the refer in Kudlow’s house breaks, he’ll figure out that our situation is FAR WORSE than he or anyone else near Trump ever thought.