It is my expectation that things get seriously worse so that there is some real change ... as in real food shortages -- not just running out of your favorite salad dressing. And instead of the occasional Wallgreens being overrun by silverbacks in LA and Chicago, the WalMart supercenters being rampaged as though the nuclear warheads were on the way. However, I also think that TPTB are very crafty engineers and they know just how much pressure to apply and where to apply it -- without sending the whole thing cartwheeling over the edge.

You and me both, Gary!

Interestingly our gas was in the $2.49 range when the POS President took over. Yesterday at Costco, it was $2,59. Color me surprised! I am not sure what exactly how this is happening, but I'm pretty sure it won't last. (I'm in Texas, so our prices are lower, but they did get above $4/gallon for a while.) I wonder what's up with that?

Damnit, I am rooting for the rail workers yet I have no use for unions. They are the real definition of political corruption!

just like 1984

The difference between this and Atlas Shrugged....is that the Union is striking here,.....not the "men of the minds" This is more akin to what happened at Twentieth Century Motor Company. Except the workers are trying to inflict their rules on management.

Atlas Shrugged has gone from being a cautionary tale to a user's guide for the far left.

Yes, but circumstances have changed. You can trust in a persons self interest to manufacture profit, until profit/market share/market dominance is not their motive anymore.

What has been done, and sadly I've been projecting it since 2012, is a deconstruction of this nation and dismantling of our constitution. The goal, it appears, is to consolidate power/control while lessening the population. Everything that is happening points to it and there are far too many complicit in government, media, the judiciary, and business, all controlling or exerting influence over our supply chain to thwart its momentum.

After this last election in AZ I see no light at the end of this tunnel. I also see a lot of cold and hungry people in this country that are not used to being cold and hungry, and I see them getting desperate and, eventually violently so. Violence leads to martial law where a savior will emerge and they'll take anything he's/she's selling even if it cost them their constitution and/or their soul.

I'm more convinced that trump is just a friendly face on the same plan, one to keep us docile and waiting. In the end, he will ramrod home whatever the end objective is that sell's us into technological slavery, every aspect of life regulated to a very personal level.

The lockdown was a very 10-289 esque moment.

Absolutely, jbrenner.......the quickest way to a fiat dollar.....and what do you have left.

I heard about a 10-289 variant about a year ago.

And we won't be able to "retire".

Rooting for the under-over-underdogs :D 10-289 is inevitable. When the SHTF finally we'll have price controls and companies will be forbidden to lay off workers etc...

JIT supply chain is a classic case of
"Check your premises."

Can a version of 10-289 be far off.
Incidentally I’m rooting for the Railroad Workers. Because things have to get worse before they get better.

Very true. Reagan had it right, and that is what should be done now. The JIT supply chain was preached in business schools for several years - inventory was always a truck or a train away....until it is not.

Biden is a Union president, and not a President of this Union. He is a corrupted leader who is in bed with industry criminals and foreign leaders.

He will cave to the Railroad Strike. Of course they deserve sick days off. The rail industry can work out these things. But with BuyDem rushing to the rescue, the price of rail shipping will go up, and the efficent functioning will go down.

It is criminal for these people to hold the nation hostage. They can get away with it because they have a symPATHETIC ear in BuyDem. I like when the ATCs had a strike, and Reagan called in the military controllers and broke the damn strike.

Do you remember how the trains didn't get to Minnesota in a timely fashion in Atlas Shrugged?

A just in time supply chain can work, and did work, for a while (several decades). Real producers like those in AS don't want to have to rely on anyone else.

Gas prices way up, diesel running low and more expensive than ever, food production crippled and more distant than ever (dependent on delivery). A just in time supply chain mentality that now hasn't product or time. I guess its now the phase to starve us into compliance or get rid of us entirely.