Posted on 05/20/2022 10:00:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the biggest issues driving our economic problems is the supply chain crisis. If you remember last year, we dealt with backups at ports on both coasts, and this year the baby formula shortage has highlighted problems with the supply chain (and the government’s response to it).
The prevailing wisdom is that the supply chain crisis is temporary and will resolve itself at some point in the near future. But is that the case? The CEO of a website that covers the trucking and logistics sector isn’t terribly optimistic.
Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves, has written an editorial at the site explaining why he believes that the supply chain isn’t going to get much better anytime soon.
In the intro to his article, Fuller lets the cat out of the bag that “The world has permanently changed and supply chains are going to face continuing challenges for decades to come.”
One of the factors that have made the supply chain crisis longer in duration and worse in intensity is global unrest. Disruptions to the supply chain create ripples in other parts of the world, and we’re feeling the effects of events half a world away.
"Natural disasters, terrorism, economic cycles, and capacity shortages have created challenges since the beginning of trade,” Fuller writes.
Global political tensions wield a strong influence on the supply chain.
“As the United States has become more insular and has pulled back from being the world’s policeman, and China has started to flex its muscles and create a global competitor to the United States, the world has become far more unstable and less peaceful,” Fuller notes.
Labor issues are playing a role in the supply chain as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Define ‘normal’ Mr Author cause according to the Left, there will never be a return to ‘normal.’
Isn’t Pete Buttgig working on it?
No.
It’ll return to normal if the RATs are tossed out. Otherwise, No.
Whomever is in charge, when our current American system collapses; will be the architect of the system that rules over us.
Think about that. Mandatory medical procedures, packing a court to get the desired results, Ministry of Truth, arresting those that dare disagree - they make no secret at all of what their intentions are.
If by soon you mean 2 or 3 years?
~These~ are the good times. Enjoy it while it lasts.
The supply chain will never return to “normal” with $6/gallon diesel fuel.
Never break the chain.....Fleetwood Mac
As diesel fuel becomes more scarce and expensive, the production of real goods and their transport declines. Things will get worse. Motto of the crypto communist Democrats: The worse the better in order to destroy the American nation and bring in socialist globalism. They are succeeding.
For as long as democrats are control.
We will know after November.
This was a pretty good, though slightly murky article. IMO the most salient thing he said about 3/4 into the article was that when the US was happily cruising along with JIT just in time inventory and shipping from Chine was nominal, there was a built in de facto shock absorber in the form of gigantic inventories built up in China. We didn’t have to pay for it/them, and China just simply overproduced to the rafters. Because we didn’t have to pay for it, it didn’t enter our calcs. Obviously, the phenomenon has been turned upside down due to the worldwide shipping problems we are in, but the zero-cost inventory cushion is not likely to return even when the current shipping snafus are solved....which by themselves could take a solid year, being generous.
Only if the gooberment gets out of the way. The idiots running this nation are doing this on purpose.
I hope that we have many new, Trump-supporting patriot faces in Congress in 2023.
But I'm also concerned that supply chain “problems” are desperate Democratic-manufactured, Democrats claiming that their economic policies worked if they stop interfering with supply chain in October.
The Uniparty is the war party.
Until that is fixed supply chain issues cannot be resolved.
Every day a new normal. Things that are always normal: misery, disease, shortage, pain, suffering and death - and all that can be at the hand of the governmen. That's normal.
What is abnormal is peace and prosperity, personal independence, and so on. Enjoyed the abnormal while it lasted, was fortunate to be born in relatively peaceful times and in a proseperous country with parents and teachers steeped in "the old ways." But that was a fluke. Not that those things are not worth striving for, but the situation is in hands beyond my control.
Not as long as the Communists are in control of our Federal Government.
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