Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

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  • The US Trucking Crisis of 2021 works fine

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  • The US Logistics Crisis of 2021

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  • The US Transportation Crisis of 2021

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  • The US Supply Chain Crisis of 2021

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  • Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021

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Maurice Caine said:
When do you think supply will normalize? This is too much.
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Define normalize.

When will it stop getting worse? We're not there yet. Not even close.

When will it get back to the way it was 2-3 years ago? Years, maybe decades, if ever. Especially if the Uniparty fights people moving manufacturing away from China. (And they absolutely will.)
 
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Related to the supply chain shortages is the fact we make less in America than we used to therefore if China is decreasing their exports to us due to the lockdown, our imports are going to down and since our services sector is 80 percent of our economy and services is a fancy way of saying 'middle-men', then we are going to experience a GDP downward spiral that continues on and on.

Ben Bernake, who led the Fed through the 2008 financial crisis, says 'stagflation' may be on the horizon.

The term, coined in the 1960s, refers to low economic growth combined with high unemployment and high prices.

The phenomenon was a notable feature of Jimmy Carter's presidency in the 1970s, when the US experienced a 'supply shock' after oil-producing nations raised their prices.
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The best case scenario is a soft landing which implies more rate hikes, unwinding of Fed balance sheet, and further destruction of asset prices. Any rebound in markets just extends this timeline, but this is unrelated to the supply chain. The better the outlook the longer it will take to get rid of the toxic assets and the longer it will be until the 'recovery'.

Economists use three variables to measure it: gross domestic product (the market value of all goods and services made in a country) unemployment and inflation (a decrease in the buying power of money.)

Stagflation happens when the first is down and the last two are up.
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MadStan said:
Forget gas prices, what about everything else?

A trip to the grocery store is actually becoming unsettling.
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You can't have fuel prices go from $2.something to $6.50+++ and not have "every thing else" get screwed. Every step of the supply chain depends on fuel. Farms largely mechanized now. They run on diesel.
Everything comes by truck. Trucks run on diesel.
Lots of things come in bulk across the country by train. Trains run on diesel.
Things come across the ocean by ship. Ships run on diesel (or some other lesser petroleum fuel oil).
So every single step is seeing their fuel costs 3x on top of all the other problems they are having. I personally do not see things getting better at all any time soon. $6.50++ diesel is going to have a domino effect though out the supply chain.

I remember paying $1.87 for home heating oil during the winter of 2020. Last time I drove by the oil company it was $5.xx. People are going to get nailed this winter.
 
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Jump said:
You can have fuel prices go from $2.something to $6.50+++ and not have "every thing else" get screwed. Every step of the supply chain depends on fuel. Farms largely mechanized now. They run on diesel.
Everything comes by truck. Trucks run on diesel.
Lots of things come in bulk across the country by train. Trains run on diesel.
Things come across the ocean by ship. Ships run on diesel (or some other lesser petroleum fuel oil).
So every single step is seeing their fuel costs 3x on top of all the other problems they are having. I personally do not see things getting better at all any time soon. $6.50++ diesel is going to have a domino effect though out the supply chain.

I remember paying $1.87 for home heating oil during the winter of 2020. Last time I drove by the oil company it was $5.xx. People are going to get nailed this winter.
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Don't forget, can't burn wood cause its not environmentally friendly (tm)! Just you watch the EPA pull a Waco over some right-wing, trump idolizing, insurrectionist Mennonites!

Serious talk, we might see many farms go bust at this rate and congress no gives a damn. Of course the corps will get away with it. You want agrarian/proletariat revolution? This is how you get one full speed.
 
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兄貴 Forevermore said:
Don't forget, can't burn wood cause its not environmentally friendly (tm)! Just you watch the EPA pull a Waco over some right-wing, trump idolizing, insurrectionist Mennonites!

Serious talk, we might see many farms go bust at this rate and congress no gives a damn. Of course the corps will get away with it. You want agrarian/proletariat revolution? This is how you get one full speed.
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It's just accelerating the process of fags like Bill Gates and Ted Turner buying all our farmland and putting small farmers out of business. Big Ag will control the global food supply even more than they do.
 
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Jump said:
You can have fuel prices go from $2.something to $6.50+++ and not have "every thing else" get screwed. Every step of the supply chain depends on fuel. Farms largely mechanized now. They run on diesel.
Everything comes by truck. Trucks run on diesel.
Lots of things come in bulk across the country by train. Trains run on diesel.
Things come across the ocean by ship. Ships run on diesel (or some other lesser petroleum fuel oil).
So every single step is seeing their fuel costs 3x on top of all the other problems they are having. I personally do not see things getting better at all any time soon. $6.50++ diesel is going to have a domino effect though out the supply chain.

I remember paying $1.87 for home heating oil during the winter of 2020. Last time I drove by the oil company it was $5.xx. People are going to get nailed this winter.
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Forget that, for us grillers, the price of propane has more than doubled very recently. Wanted to kill myself at the coop filling 3 tanks the other day. Just glad I am not on propane heat anymore (for the most part). I think the most I paid was near $3 a gallon in 2015 or something and I wanted to neck myself to fill up my 250 gallon tank. $5 a gallon...fuuuuckkkk. But I am approaching $6 a gallon for diesel fast for my vehicle. Kill me.
 
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Health officials in Massachusetts have detected a monkeypox infection in a man who has recently returned from Canada. Its Department of Health said the individual was hospitalized, but in a 'good condition'. They are now tracing his close contacts. It is the first confirmed infection with the virus in the U.S. this year, and comes a day after CDC officials said they were monitoring six potential cases.
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If you're wondering, Monkeypox comes from niggers eating bushmeat because Africa, once again, cannot feed itself.
 
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I have a 20lb bag of ice party size bought last month now every fucking bag no where I go is now is now 16lbs . Some stores haven't even changed there signs yet. When did the ice company have time to change and reprint the fucking bags so quickly. 🤔 more importantly now its impossible to find larger then 16lbs bags of ice . No 20-35-50 or 100lbs bags so now going out to buy an ice maker. And before any Niggercattle starts mooing at me about how its only ice get bent. If the fucking power goes again as it often does. It will it make that much harder to find large quantities of coolant for food storage
 
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George Lucas said:
I just eat rice all the time. I’m not Asian. It’s just less of a pain in the ass than bread is. Even store bought bread gets dry or moldy fairly quickly.
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Home made bread can last a week easily.
Glad I couldn't help said:
I've read a theory that the many fires and accidents at food processing plants are caused by delayed maintenance and overwork.
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Sounds like a logical answer.
兄貴 Forevermore said:
Don't forget, can't burn wood cause its not environmentally friendly (tm)! Just you watch the EPA pull a Waco over some right-wing, trump idolizing, insurrectionist Mennonites!

Serious talk, we might see many farms go bust at this rate and congress no gives a damn. Of course the corps will get away with it. You want agrarian/proletariat revolution? This is how you get one full speed.
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How much would it help if 90% of environmental restrictions were lifted? Basically all stuff save for lead in food and dumping factory waste into the drinking water/farmland?

Just curious how that would effect non pozzed places like India if they didn't need to worry about carbon taxes.

As for food, when I prep(tm) I only buy stuff that is ready to eat out of the can and needs no fridge.
 
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