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Container ships leaving China for US drop precipitously (Original Post) Tomconroy Apr 2022 OP
Make goods here, make it better, pay living wages. nt Samrob Apr 2022 #1
That would benefit everyone except the top 1% of the country, so it will never happen. Chainfire Apr 2022 #5
Sounds good. But target capital gains not normal income harumph Apr 2022 #6
It would have to be the result of Covid lockdowns at Shanghai Sherman A1 Apr 2022 #2
Dollar stores will have multigraincracker Apr 2022 #3
Find your consumables. Get to the store. bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 #4

Chainfire

(17,304 posts)
5. That would benefit everyone except the top 1% of the country, so it will never happen.
Sat Apr 23, 2022, 09:35 AM
Apr 2022

If China stopped shipping to the US, then our store shelves would be empty in two weeks. It is a terrible strategic position to be in. We became a super-power based upon our industrial capacity and that has been sold off to the lowest bidders. We have traded security in order to create a few billionaires and a mass of Americans that struggle, day to day, to keep their heads above water. Shuttering our factories was a self-inflicted wound, and we pay the economic and social consequences every day.

When you all make me king of the country, I will return factories and jobs to the country no matter how many apple carts I have to turn over to do it. (kings can do that kind of thing) I also have a plan to tax 95% of the income of people who's yearly income exceeds four times the national average, but that is another story.






Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. It would have to be the result of Covid lockdowns at Shanghai
Sat Apr 23, 2022, 06:00 AM
Apr 2022

Which is one of the world’s busiest ports. The affects will take time to work through the system but I suspect that come late summer and into the Christmas season prices will go up even more as goods become more difficult to find. It the short term it will likely help ease the backlog at US ports, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing long term.

bucolic_frolic

(42,653 posts)
4. Find your consumables. Get to the store.
Sat Apr 23, 2022, 07:05 AM
Apr 2022

Personally I've a light inventory of filters, belts, gaskets and the like, whereas before I had no inventory.

Shoes are a good idea too, if you can find value in the new, lighter, cheaper and still same price shoes. I'm not finding much inventory in the stores.

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