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Home > Uncategorized > The Out Has Not Yet Begun to Fall

The Out Has Not Yet Begun to Fall

March 31, 2020 by Philip Barton

Wednesday

Keith Weiner’s notates and dissects the most immediate problems stemming from the lock-downs.

 “…we’re now going to make a call, for the first time, for certain consumer prices to rise. This call is absolutely, positively not based on rising quantity of money. It is based on three things. First, as we said in item number one above, many vendors and service providers in many supply chains will be ruined. This will make manufacture and distribution of consumer products less efficient, slower, and more expensive. Second, the government will be ordering, or in many cases outright owning, the means of production. We see this already with President Trump ordering General Motors to manufacture ventilators, a product with which GM certainly has no experience, expertise, or efficiency in producing. It should go without saying that government-directed production is expensive (and, of low quality). Low quality, it should be noted, itself makes things more expensive for everybody. Third, in the new normal that is to come, there will simply be fewer restaurants and fewer stores of every type who remain in business. Lessened competition will enable the survivors to charge higher prices.”

And here is the full article.  Get a beer or a cup of tea before you read it.

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