Shortages

[Skybird]

Good video. My estimation has been that it will take until christmas season NEXT year, if all goes well, before things will be somewhere around "normal" again. The video seems to aim at tbat timetable, too. But think things can go worse due to subsequent effects: muted demand due to exploding inflation, high energy prices etc.



Optimism is not justified. Only the attempt of preparing for anything as best as one can.

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Good video. My estimation has been that it will take until christmas season NEXT year, if all goes well, before things will be somewhere around "normal" again. The video seems to aim at tbat timetable, too. But think things can go worse due to subsequent effects: muted demand due to exploding inflation, high energy prices etc.



Optimism is not justified. Only the attempt of preparing for anything as best as one can.

If everything goes smoothly and theres no further hold ups delays or shutdowns, the maritime sector could be back to normal by Q2 2022

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

If everything goes smoothly and theres no further hold ups delays or shutdowns, the maritime sector could be back to normal by Q2 2022

Thats the rub: "If". But as I see it, a chain reaciton has started, bringing more and more components of the global logistics and consumption chain out of tact.


Normal availability may be possible againduring autumn next year. But at much higher price indices.



And that does not even calculate in energy costs frenzies and inflation.



We have left the comfort zone, forever. Tooth paste is not being pressed back into the tube. Gobalization and supply chains need to be chnaged, and dramatically.



All my fears of and criticism for total globalization have come true, it seems to me.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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All my fears of and criticism for total globalization have come true, it seems to me.

...nah...


..."its just the normal noises in the room"...




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[Texas Red]

Can confirm schools in my area are suffering from severe shortages of food and utensils.

Our school has run out of chips, forks, and spoons, ranch dressing, napkins nearly, a bunch of other sides, and we aren't allowed to get seconds after our first helping.

My grandma is a lunch lady at a school in Lake County and she is saying the same thing. They can't serve breakfast items anymore because they can't get them, they have no meat for things like chicken nuggets and burgers, etc etc.

Honestly, my school may not shut down because of COVID but because of the fact that the school cannot provide lunch for their students!

[Jimbuna]

The end product will be higher inflation and interest rates.

[3catcircus]

What an abject failure the Biden administration is in regards to this. When orangemanbad was in office, the initial shortages at the beginning of these pandemic were resolved within a few weeks.

This mumbling, stuttering waterhead in office now, along with his utterly incompetent West Wing tv show LARPer staff, have managed to destroy our entire economy in less than a year. Between unconstitutional demands that employers force workers to get a covid vaccine and paying lazy bums to not work, there will continue to be shortages as cargo ships bob at anchor, trucks/trains/airplanes remain without pilots/engineers/drivers, and thieves brazenly steal from store shelves in Dem-run cities that have decriminalized thievery.

Meanwhile Janet Yellen is doing her best Baghdad Bob impression while telling people not to panic about the shortages.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The end product will be higher inflation and interest rates.

Im beginning to think it has a lot to do with the ‘tax the rich’ scheme. With most nation agreeing to a new minimum 15% global tax rate plan. Corporations will place that new burden square on the shoulders of the consumer. I betting inflation isn’t going any higher than the new tax rate.