Posted on 10/11/2021 7:20:16 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The truth is starting to come out, and a lot of people aren’t going to like it. When the supply chain problems and the shortages began, government officials repeatedly assured us that they would just be temporary, and most of us believed them. But now it has become clear that they aren’t going to be temporary at all. In fact, during a recent interview with Bloomberg, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted that some of the supply chain problems that we are currently facing could last for “years and years”. I don’t know about you, but to me “years and years” sounds like a really long time.
Of course that is not the only time that Buttigieg has made such a claim. During another recent interview, he used the words “long term” to describe what we are facing…
Buttigieg has said in recent interviews that “it’s an incredibly complicated situation,” but the government is holding virtual “roundtables” with port operators, labor unions and private companies. Nevertheless, he told MSNBC last Thursday, the “challenges” will continue, not only “going into the next year or two, but going into the long term.”
Isn’t it remarkable how the outlook for our economic future has changed so dramatically in just a matter of a few months?
Earlier this year, we were told that we would soon be entering a new golden era of prosperity.
But now inflation and shortages are causing chaos everywhere we look.
Earlier today, I came across a Daily Mail article that boldly declared that “stores across America have empty shelves” right now…
Stores across America have empty shelves thanks to a series in supply chain problems that are prolonging inflation and could stretch into the new year, with some retailers like Costco and Walmart limiting the amount of toilet paper in some stores.
More than 60 cargo ships are waiting to dock in California, carrying hundreds of thousands of containers, and may be stuck for months in a traffic jam after arriving from China and Asia. Millions of dollars of American goods are still sitting in warehouses in China, awaiting shipment.
In addition to the unprecedented backlogs that we are witnessing at our major ports, it has also become far, far more expensive to send products across the Pacific Ocean.
Just check out these numbers…
The Washington Post reported the median cost of shipping a standard container from China to the U.S. West Coast hit a record $20,586. That’s nearly twice what it cost in July, which was twice what it cost in January, according to the Freightos index.
“Consumers are confronting higher prices and shortages of cars, children’s shoes and exercise gear, as the holiday shopping season looms,” the Post said.
That is crazy.
And now the emerging global energy crisis is going to make it even more expensive to move stuff around the planet. On Monday, the price of gasoline in the United States hit a new seven-year high…
The national average price for gasoline hit a fresh seven-year high of $3.27 a gallon on Monday, up by 7 cents in the past week alone, according to AAA. Gas has nearly doubled since bottoming at $1.77 in April 2020.
High gas prices will only exacerbate elevated inflation, squeeze the budgets of American families and hurt President Joe Biden’s political fortunes.
In addition, we just learned that U.S. stockpiles of heating oil have hit a 20 year low…
The U.S. may be heading into winter with the lowest stockpiles of heating oil to meet surging demand in more than two decades.
Inventories of distillates — used as diesel for both transportation and heating oil — are enough to meet 31.2 days of demand, according to the Energy Information Administration. That’s the tightest it has been for this time of the year since 2000.
Unfortunately, global energy supplies are going to get even tighter and prices are going to go even higher in the months ahead.
Needless to say, the big corporations are going to feel forced to pass on rising costs to consumers. In fact, the head of Kraft Heinz says that his company is already doing this…
Miguel Patricio said the international food giant, which makes tomato sauce and baked beans, was putting up prices in several countries.
Unlike in previous years, he said, inflation was “across the board”.
The cost of ingredients such as cereals and oils has pushed global food prices to a 10-year high, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
If you are reading this article and you are thinking that this is perfectly setting the stage for many of the scenarios that I have described in my books, you would be 100 percent correct.
We are entering a period of inflation that is going to absolutely shock most people.
In fact, the UN says that the global price of food has already risen more than 32 percent over the past year…
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s September food price index – a measure of monthly changes in global food prices – reached 130 points, a level not seen since 2011.
It represents a 32.8 percent increase from September 2020.
I realize that I have thrown a lot of information at you very quickly in this article.
Things are starting to move quite rapidly now, and we are being warned that conditions are going to continue to deteriorate in the months ahead.
And as conditions deteriorate, the American people are going to becoming increasingly restless. Already, polls are showing that Americans are quite dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. Here is one example…
Just 37% of Americans rate the economy as very or fairly good – the lowest percentage since March, and for the second straight month, more than half feel the economy is in bad shape. And most Americans are not convinced that the Biden administration’s domestic agenda would improve the economy.
As I discussed yesterday, our economy is starting to break down on a very basic level.
We have become so dependent on an efficient flow of goods and services, but these days there are breakdowns all over the system.
I would like to tell you that things will get better soon, but I can’t do that.
More supply chain problems are ahead, and some of them are going to be exceptionally painful.
Oh,BS. Europe was recovering from WWII sooner than that
The US Government knows this is coming. In August 2021, food stamps monthly payout was permenately by 25%. It went into effect October 1st.
All the truly stupid people were killed off in WWII.
Today they are running everything. They aren’t really capable of keeping everything running in the best of times.
Government policy is driving this, not capitalism. But capitalism will be blamed to bring in socialism/fascism/communism, take you pick.
When you put absolute MORONS in charge of essential departments, expect monumental screwups and problems of every sort. The unelected senile mushbrain sitting in the Oval Office chose the dumbest, least experienced, most radical bottom of the barrel scum to fill all these positions. As long as THEY are in charge, expect shortages and every sort of disaster.
Europe did t have Pete Buttigieg in charge of transportation.
Only if the Democrat Party keeps up its foul handiwork.
Well, Biteme’s gonna be in orifice for another 3, so prolly.
Uh, highly doubtful that a guy that runs the “Economic Collapse Blog” wants to tell anyone that anything will get better soon. Well, unless you buy ‘stuff from him.
A little while ago you posted from Starvation.news
Now you post from the Economic Collapse Blog.
Will the next one come from We’reAllGoingToDie.com?
:)
True. But America built the factories and shipyards to build 100,000 aircraft, tens of thousands of tanks and vast numbers of ships including battleships and aircraft carriers and did it all in just over 5 years
In all my years, I have never heard a government decision-making wonk say. ‘We can’t’..
Empower Trump to cut the gov’t’s crap and things will be well in Trump time.
Pull the chubby fist of government out of the economy, send fauci and his cdc thugs to the Yukon Territory, and the economy will come back.
It’ll take Trump less than two years to reverse all the crap
Biden and his thugs are doing... We need to keep things going until Trump can save us.
What's going to add to our supply problems is China is often cutting power to some of their factories so that they're operating only a few days per week.
One place to look is the baby boomers approaching retirement age.
They are packing in it for a bunch of reasons—mandatory vaxxes, worker shortages making them shoulder too much of the burden, a strong stock market helping make the retirement numbers work, etc.
They are often the most knowledgeable and experienced workers, and you can throw fresh youngsters at the wall but they will not be able to fix complex problems while they are still learning a new trade.
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