Ok. Let’s stop the bickering. One or two days slight decline is not a reversal. This thing is still in an upward trajectory, and it’s showing up all over the place.
Give it time in India, Africa, and any of the other cesspools in the world.
And why no word from Indonesia?
So, enough with the “this is nothing”stuff. To 400 million chines and bunch of other folks it’s pretty serious.
And as I write to people every day, this is probably not going to kill you. But within a couple of weeks it will affect almost everyone in some way. The Just in Time world is about to get it’s ass kicked. Try building cars without parts.
Well said.
It’s decimating the supply chain out of China.
Hubby and I sit and think of what we might need in a 6-9m period that would suck if we couldn’t get...fan belts, filters, etc would shut us down quick if they weren’t available for our make/model of car.
multiply by all the other intricacies.
..for want of a nail...
“Try building cars without parts.”
OH PLEASE, so they’ll deliver cars without an alternator, or perhaps without a windshield, or maybe no gas tank - but you’ll still get most of the car.
So please, how about NOT setting off a panic by claiming cars will not be built. They WILL get built - we’ll just have to adjust to the new ‘styles’.
You’re putting words in my mouth.
I said the growth rate appears to be down, which is true. You obviously don’t know what that means.
And why don’t you include the recovery numbers?
Try processing food, pumping water, and keeping the lights on without parts.
My grandpa was a bastard, but he was a very paranoid man. He would never sell all his corn to the elevator, because he knew the elevator might blow up.
JIT works great. Till it doesn’t. A legion of MBA’s and Lean consultants are looking at their Black Swan.
The people that I know are very concerned about the radio silence from Indonesia.
If you are disinfecting your bank notes, this ain’t the run of the mill flu.