Supply Chain News

[Manonthestreet]

a 1, 2 gut punch by Putin and XI. Aint globalism grand

The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse

A seemingly endless supply chain crunch has fueled interest in tech that promises to track problems or predict where new ones might occur.

www.wired.com

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I wonder if the real question would be the supply itself rather than if it gets to where it's going

 

[Manonthestreet]

While we’ve been warning about just such a scenario for some time, after spending the past two weeks traveling across the US Midwest and conferring with our contacts in the agricultural sector, even we are a little spooked by what we’ve learned. In a financial crash, the correlation between all asset classes converges to one. The coming crash in global food supply will be driven by a similar phenomenon across virtually every input into farming – they are all spiking to historic highs simultaneously, supply availability is diminishing across the spectrum, and the time to reverse the worst of the upcoming consequences is rapidly running short. Farmers on the Brink

 

[task0778]

I wonder if the real question would be the supply itself rather than if it gets to where it's going

Both, I think.

 

[toobfreak]

The supply chain is too complex, interconnected, and fragile to be made completely immune to shocks, especially ones as seismic as a global pandemic or a major war.

All of our infrastructure that controls everything is fragile and flawed, from energy production and distribution to power system susceptibility to the internet and computer security. Government, universities and industry made literally everything dependent on computers yet the computers themselves and the internet are as fragile as a hen's egg. All that mattered was making the most money the fastest and soonest, and now we have all been made dependent on a house of cards that literally tells everyone what to do and runs everything, a part Machiavellian part Rube Goldberg monstrosity that must fail and collapse on us sooner or later, if not due to utterly poor patchwork engineering and corrupt management despite decades of concern and warning, then due to overtly malicious actors on the world arena who will take advantage of our technological vulnerabilities.

 

[Moonglow]

All of our infrastructure that controls everything is fragile and flawed, from energy production and distribution to power system susceptibility to the internet and computer security. Government, universities and industry made literally everything dependent on computers yet the computers themselves and the internet are as fragile as a hen's egg. All that mattered was making the most money the fastest and soonest, and now we have all been made dependent on a house of cards that literally tells everyone what to do and runs everything, a part Machiavellian part Rube Goldberg monstrosity that must fail and collapse on us sooner or later, if not due to utterly poor patchwork engineering and corrupt management despite decades of concern and warning, then due to overtly malicious actors on the world arena who will take advantage of our technological vulnerabilities.

(menacing music rises) There is not a system in the history of humans that has not failed.