Gee we could manufacture stuff here in the USA and cut out the nameless, faceless globalist middle men anti-American traitorous money sluts...
One of the data sources I use periodically for work is a trucking industry database that posts weekly and monthly reports on activity in the industry. They use one of the largest online resources for trucking brokerage services as their primary indicator of business activity in the trucking industry.
Before COVID, this brokerage clearinghouse reported about 400,000 transactions per day.
For the week ending last Friday, they reported four days of more than 1 million transactions per day -- peaking at nearly 1.1 million.
I'm not sure what's driving this, but if my behavior is any indication then I'll suggest this is what's happening: Many Americans are buying as many durable goods as possible right now while they have the money on hand -- because they're planning to reduce their consumption dramatically in the coming months and years.