Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheetz.

Today, I want to talk with you about security.

I want to give you a warning and hope to do this in the appropriate way.

Right now, global supply chains are in massive disarray.

They are experiencing massive stress.

Perhaps you have noticed that many things that you would like to go and get right now are

limited in quantity or unavailable.

This is not universally true for any one market or in any one country.

Rather, what you're seeing are shortages in pockets.

And for that reason, I think there's some chance that perhaps you're not noticing this,

and so thus I want to warn you.

But if you go looking for it, the warnings of the shortages that people are experiencing

right now are abundant.

They are everywhere.

And they are across all kinds of industries.

Industries that you wouldn't ever expect.

Some of these are large and quite visible, for example, we know that there are thousands

and thousands and thousands of mostly finished automobiles sitting in parking lots unfinished

because manufacturers can't get computer chips.

...