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Well, we should begin with the supply chain. There's actually a very interesting story over at the Washington Post.

It's interesting for how it phrases where we're headed.

I would note, by the way, that the White House and a number of Democrats now are coming out,

and I guess their strategy now is to insult you if you're worried about supply chain problems heading into Christmas.

It's very weird to be antagonizing you for being concerned about this, but there's an op-ed in the Washington Post, Michelin Maynard.

For more than a century, business experts have been trying to dial up the United States' efficiency.

Ever since Frederick Taylor published the principles of scientific management in 1911,

companies have focused on doing things more quickly and raising customers' expectations

as a result. But Taylor's ideas didn't take into account the havoc a pandemic might do

to supply chains and how that would blunt what a few months ago seemed like a looming resumption

of normal life.

Across the country,

Americans' expectations of speedy service and easy access to consumer products

have been crushed like a styrofoam container and a trash compactor.

Time for some new,

more realistic expectations.

Fast food is less fast. A huge flotilla of container ships is stuck offshore in California waiting to unload.

Shelves normally stocked with Halloween candy this time of year are empty, as I saw the other day at Target in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The issues have become so troublesome with alarming economic and political ramifications

that the White House is stepping in, urging unions, port operators, and big consumer companies

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