It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to serve you with knowledge and information that empowers you to make better financial decisions in your life. In today's episode, I want to tell you about key indicators that say that if you've been saving up money to buy stuff, you will

be rewarded for waiting a bit longer.

I'm also going to talk about an example of technology that I started talking about when the first

tests were taking place 10 years ago, 10 years ago, and is finally actually possibly maybe could be starting to happen just a little bit.

That's deliveries by drone. Wow things take a lot longer and don't work out exactly like the futurists expect. But this is a prediction of the future that you can take to the credit union.

So we have an oversupply of manufacturing capacity in the world,

not just in Asia.

I mean, we pretty much do for consumer goods

all over the place.

We have an excess capacity now of cargo ships, trucks, you know, trucking companies are complaining

their volume has fallen.

That was, somebody came up recently with FedEx that the volume of packages they're moving is falling and a lot of truckers over the road trucking companies have gone insolvent. I mean we are in a time

where we went from if you go back 2021 into 22 we had not enough capacity. I don't know if you remember this is the kind of thing that's

really not a consumer story particularly, but when the ports along the U. the US coastlines could not process the cargo coming in.

There was so much cargo coming in that ships were lined up out at sea for long periods of time and there was a big backlog

getting them onto trains getting them on the trucks the whole thing.

It was crazy like the pictures of the ports. I remember

wasn't that wild? Savannah Georgia had. I mean it was

ships just everywhere you could see everywhere you looked. You saw all these cargo

ships just sitting out at sea for some cases more than a

month waiting to unload all that was then we're in a whole different mode now so

when you look at the pipeline and the

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