/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>51401817
There really does seem to be an accelerating breakdown of industrial suppliers. It was one thing to see grocery stores only stocking 2-3 varieties of a product line since they're the best sellers and the processors have to put all their inputs and man-hours toward them to keep product moving onto shelves. But its really starting to scare me that its showing up in industrial and laboratory supply shops. I work for a small water treatment company. I went online to our typical vendor to buy some silicone tubing in a particular, common size. Not only had the price more than doubled since two months ago, their shipping time went from end of week to about 40 days out.

This international company only deals in tubing and hoses, and one of their most popular product lines, in one of the most commonly used sizes, is not only massively more expensive, but there isn't any back stock on the shelves anywhere that serves North America. Covid has been functionally over everywhere that isn't China for a while now. Something is fucked.

>>51399042
I don't think so. Eventually Europe was going to sit down and face the consequences of decades of a pants on head retarded energy policy. Eventually something was going to result in a loss of fertilizer exports from somewhere. I don't care that the Russians are letting ships with what's left of this year's harvest leave Ukraine for the ME. I care that there isn't going to be a harvest next year because no one is planting now. I care that China banned the export of phosphate fertilizer, and that India banned the export of rice used as animal feed. I care because when food runs out revolutions happen. And while the new world is going to be relatively okay in this regard, the rest of the world won't be.