Who would have thought that in a country as developed as the US, we would encounter the typically socialist problem of a shortage of everything. It's a phenomenon so visible that the current president, until recently seen as a liberator from Trump's horror reign, has already been nicknamed "Joe Empty Shelves."
Commentator Derek Thompson offers an interesting explanation for the unprecedented phenomenon in the October issue of The Atlantic: The tricky part of the problem is that while the U.S. national economy is not currently experiencing a stagflationary slump similar to that of the 1970s. The country has clearly entered a phase of pandemic economics, where GDP is still seemingly growing but people are already suffering from shortages of a shocking number of goods. Starting with medicines, automotive parts, semiconductors, cargo ships, containers, and labor.
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