Posted on 01/16/2022 7:57:17 AM PST by bitt
As if there wasn’t enough bad economic news — The War Room opened their first hour on Friday warning viewers of the coming “mother of all supply chain shocks.”
Zero Hedge reported on the coming Biden crisis on Thursday.
And, as we have also discussed in recent weeks, one place where this growth slowdown is emerging – besides the upcoming deterioration in US consumption where spending is now being funded to record rates by credit cards before it encounters a troubling air pocket – is China and its “covid-zero” policy in general, and its covid-locked down ports in particular.
But what until recently was a minority view confined to our modest website, has since expanded and as Bloomberg writes overnight, the effects of restrictions in China as the country maintains its Covid-zero policy “are starting to hit supply chains in the region.” As a result of the slow movement of goods through some of the country’s busiest and most important ports means shippers are now diverting to Shanghai, causing the types of knock-on delays at the world’s biggest container port that led to massive congestion bottlnecks last summer that eventually translated into a record number of container ships waiting off the coast of California, a glut that hasn’t been cleared to this day.
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Have used rockauto for at least 15 years. I hate paying double and triple at the local stores. If you register vehicles they’ll regularly send emails with links to manufacturer closeout parts for that vehicle Some incredibly cheap prices to be had on those.
So that’s who knocked me down and ran off with My tots lol...
Yes to canned milk. I have chocolate on hand and I don’t generally buy food in bags and boxes. I make my own fries. The prepper items on sale are emptied with 24 hours. Assume new peppers.
Before we could even think about building a factory here, we'd have to roll back pretty much every OSHA and EPA regulation just to compete with China. That would take years.
It could be done, but it would require the country to go on a war footing the likes we haven't seen since WWII.
It’s what they make from grapes that’s concerning.
A fine observation.
This form of authoritarianism is best described as corporatism, and is being pursued by the largest of corporations worldwide.
Def. — “a collectivist political ideology which advocates the organization of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, on the basis of their common interests.”
While all the political science experts make distinctions between socialism, Communism, fascism and National socialism, all are versions of collectives in the sense of corporatism.
As with the treaty between Hitler and Stalin before that break, corporatist entities will collaborate until they must compete with each other. And then they will war. One should not ally or appease a "criminal organization," in your words, but that is just what the "new world order" types have been trying to do. For decades.
I expect China to collapse economically quite like the Soviet Union. It's a matter of time.
We make whisky from
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— “The only difference is the scale of corruption.”
Also a fine observation.
“One should not ally or appease a “criminal organization,” in your words, but that is just what the “new world order” types have been trying to do. “
Trying my bleep, they ARE those criminal organizations.
— “they ARE those criminal organizations.”
I stand corrected in my choice of language and agree.
Needlessly insulting.
For all the talk of supply chain collapse, many/most of us haven’t had any problem getting what we want.
Yesterday I went grocery shopping, enjoying the local “OMG there’s a storm coming, buy everything!” hysteria in Georgia. Yeah a few things were picked over pretty well (pasta & sauce the surprise fixation this time), and I got a few “OMG the shelves are nearly empty!” photos ... and considered that 90% of the remainder was well stocked, and how some (like yourself) revel in viciously attacking anyone not adhering to a given narrative. Going from “I’m still getting whatever I order” to “you’re robbing the trains!” is really bad form. Yes there’s issues - that’s life, we can find “issues” anywhere anytime.
Be nice.
Shut down the ports but host Olympic sports?
The Christmas shortage BS was put out by democrats like Harris to gin up fear and a possible run on products...
That doesn’t mean the supply chain problem isn’t real because it is - you just haven’t run into it yet - good chance you will soon
If this will draw manufacturing and production back o our shores then a year or two of scarcity will be worth defunding the CCP. Our money is financing the biggest navy and army in the world and the spread of Chinese Belt and Road colonialism throughout the third world.
I’m fine...thanks for asking.
But have you experienced empty shelves at the grocery store and the smaller general stores? Hereabouts even WalMart has voids on its shelves.
Well, I have enough sardines to last me a year and enough Kirkland keurig cups to last two years. So I’m good. :)
My washer broke some months back. I was told if the part needed was available it would be repaired in a few weeks - if the part wasn’t available (which I was told was becoming more and more common) it could be 6 months or longer before a repair could be made.
LOL - I like your attitude...
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