https://gcaptain.com/vanishing-ships-underscore-supply-woe-crisis-peak-is-a-mirage/
“A line of more than 80 container ships waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, was cut in half in late November — or so it seemed. Turns out the vessels disappearing from the queue were merely hiding from it, loitering in the Pacific out of reach of the official count.
The actual bottleneck at midweek stood at 96 ships. In a recurring theme in economies from Germany to the U.S., progress repairing this supply snarl proved to be a mirage.
As the year supply chains went haywire winds down, logistics experts are struggling to distinguish between the rays of real improvement and the false dawns. Even if the optimists are proved correct in detecting a peak in the gridlock, the fragile global trading system faces months of additional pain and remains at risk of collapsing again from even one unforeseen shock.”
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Hispanic voters are abandoning Democrats at a record pace. White suburban women are abandoning Democrats at a record pace.
Why is this happening with such velocity? This isn’t merely a slow demographic shift over time. This is a stampede out of a burning theater.