Posted on 11/10/2021 7:57:36 PM PST by MNJohnnie
President Joe Biden spoke to the nation’s increasing rate of inflation amid global supply chain issues in an address at the Port of Baltimore on Nov. 10.
An earlier Labor Department report shows that in the 12 months through October the consumer price index surged 6.2 percent, the largest year-on-year increase since November 1990.
And the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are continuing to sort through a container logjam and long lines of ships waiting at anchor to dock.
But Biden says his administration is “set to make significant progress” in addressing these issues.
On Tuesday, the White House announced billions in near-term investments to United States’ ports.
These include a list of grant funding opportunities, as well as $8 million for the port of Savanna, $4 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects at ports, and $3.4 billion in upgrades for border inspection facilities meant to allow for more efficient international trade.
And, last week, Congress passed Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which includes $17 billion for ports.
While the measure still awaits his signature, Biden says it will “reduce the cost of goods to consumers, and businesses, and get people back to work.”
“It’s about taking a long-term view of our economy to deliver lower costs, more jobs, and ensure our shelves are stocked with product,” said Biden on Nov. 10.
But many experts say inflation and supply chain bottlenecks aren’t going anywhere.
“Inflation concerns are weighing on consumer confidence and with an annual rate of north of 6 percent, this will only continue,” Bankrate chief financial analyst Greg McBride told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
McBride predicting also that supply chain bottlenecks “will be with us well into 2022, and with that upward pressure on prices.”
For months, Fed Chair Jerome Powell had described inflation as “transitory,” and linked to the speed at which the country rebounds from the pandemic recession.
But last week, Powell acknowledged higher prices could last well into next summer.
And CNBC reports that top executives at European blue-chip companies say supply chain problems, labor shortages, and inflationary pressures will run for longer than policymakers are expecting.
The increasing inflation has hit American consumers across multiple sectors, with the biggest contributor on a monthly and annual basis being fuel oil, spiking 12.3 percent over the month and 59.1 percent over the year in October.
The food-at-home index has also risen 5.4 percent over the past 12 months. Used car prices jumped 2.5 percent over the month and 26.4 percent over the year in October.
Biden blames the COVID-19 pandemic for the supply chain issues saying it “stretched the global supply chains like never before.”
The administration has also consistently pointed to an increase in goods being moved through the ports as a reason for the bottlenecks.
The volume of imports moved through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is 18 percent higher this year than over the same period in 2018, which had been the previous record, according to the White House.
“We’ve got higher demand for goods at the same time we’re facing disruptions in the supplies that make those goods,” Biden said. “This is a recipe for delays and for higher prices.”
Biden held a meeting Nov. 9 with CEOs from leading retailers and freight movers, including Walmart, Target, FedEx and UPS—each of which pledged in October to move to 24-7 operations.
“They assured me the shelves will be stocked in stores this holiday,” Biden said.
Not a single thing they are doing will solve even 1 problem in the Supply Chain. Getting more containers unload at ports is utter uselessness when the problem is moving them from the port to consumers.
1970s Democrat era thinking redux. Spend a bunch of money "studying" the problem, talk about it a lot but do nothing at all useful.
Bare Shelves Biden is intellectually the same moron he was when he arrived in DC in 1972. He has learned nothing.
In the long term, we’re all dead.
That’s what the pilot said when the 747 went into a tailspin. Look at the long term picture.
Biden is offering the 5 and 10 year plans. Sort of what the USSR used to do. And we all know how that ended.
“Biden Calls for ‘Long Term’ View on Economy as Inflation Soars to 31-Year High”
In the long term we will all be dead.
I’LL GET JIM TAGGART ON THE PHONE! HE’LL KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Next he will be telling us to wear a sweater................
I’m taking the long term view to his residency
I see him dying with demetia and regularly pooping himself
I’m all for a ‘short term’ on Biden instead.
I think long term to Brandon means “I won’t be here in 3 years so it’s somebody else’s problem”
WORST POTUS in my lifetime! Jimmy Carter ought to be thanking Biden.
A lot of this resembles the initial period of FDR arriving and his ‘team’ creating massive regulations which defeated the economy and commerce on every turn. I expect the same...it’ll gut the economy completely by summer of 2022. Probably time to sell my stock, and sit tight for two years.
bttt
Only one year into poppy pant’s catastrophe and the economy sucks. It was doing just fine when Trump was in office.
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His whole Admin is Tax, Spend, and hey, the Ruling class has it good.
They have applied what they think of Big City dwellers to the entire country.
Crrime, dangerous schools, horrible conditions - but we’re gonna Vote for you no matter what.
They think the plantation spans 50 States.
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If he didn’t immediately kill the Keystone Pipeline, stop drilling, quickly opened the border to intruders and stop building the Wall, things would be a lot better.
It was 100% TDS from the get-go, even though those things were some of the best things Trump did.
Oh well.
Libtards in charge will get you this. Almost looks like some kind of payback to big oil.
All I have to say, “Let’s go Brandon!”
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