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Why Are There So Many Shortages?
Manage episode 302876036 series 2137790
What is causing the shortage of goods and workers? What should we do about it?
Topics covered include:
- How a tree pandemic killed billions of American Chestnut trees
- How a massive increase in demand has crippled the global supply, leading to an eight-fold increase in shipping costs
- Why there are so many job openings and people quitting their jobs
- Why the free market doesn't work as well for child daycare
- How stimulus payments during the pandemic reduced poverty rates
- What is the lying flat movement
- How everything is in place for an extended period of high inflation even though the bond market still anticipates inflation will be transitory
- Why we should own real things and plan more downtime
Thanks to Policygenius and Masterworks for sponsoring the episode.
For more information on this episode click here.
Show Notes
The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut by Kate Morgan—Sierra Club
U.S. Imports to Increase by 20% by End of 2021—Material Handling & Logistics
Rising Shipping Costs Are Companies’ Latest Inflation Riddle by Thomas Gryta—The Wall Street Journal
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2020—United States Census Bureau
Job Openings and Labor Turnover - July 2021—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
‘Lie Flat’ If You Want, But Be Ready to Pay the Price by Allison Schrager—Bloomberg
Related Episodes
323: The Economy Is Not A Machine
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492 episódios
Manage episode 302876036 series 2137790
What is causing the shortage of goods and workers? What should we do about it?
Topics covered include:
- How a tree pandemic killed billions of American Chestnut trees
- How a massive increase in demand has crippled the global supply, leading to an eight-fold increase in shipping costs
- Why there are so many job openings and people quitting their jobs
- Why the free market doesn't work as well for child daycare
- How stimulus payments during the pandemic reduced poverty rates
- What is the lying flat movement
- How everything is in place for an extended period of high inflation even though the bond market still anticipates inflation will be transitory
- Why we should own real things and plan more downtime
Thanks to Policygenius and Masterworks for sponsoring the episode.
For more information on this episode click here.
Show Notes
The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut by Kate Morgan—Sierra Club
U.S. Imports to Increase by 20% by End of 2021—Material Handling & Logistics
Rising Shipping Costs Are Companies’ Latest Inflation Riddle by Thomas Gryta—The Wall Street Journal
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2020—United States Census Bureau
Job Openings and Labor Turnover - July 2021—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
‘Lie Flat’ If You Want, But Be Ready to Pay the Price by Allison Schrager—Bloomberg
Related Episodes
323: The Economy Is Not A Machine
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
492 episódios
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