Employees at a fast-food restaurant in Sacramento, California, feeling exasperated over working in stifling heat for low wages, demanded more pay and a new air conditioner — and got both.
Customer orders poured in to an Italian auto supplier, which struggled to get hold of enough supplies of everything from plastic to microchips to meet the demand.
A water shortage in Taiwan magnified a worldwide scarcity of computer chips, so vital to auto and electronics production.
The global economy had not experienced anything like this for decades. Maybe ever. After years in which ultra-low inflation had become a fixture of economies across

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