Feb 2022 Issue News Today

Building a domestic supply chain, Lordstown, Ohio, is becoming a hub for the electric-vehicle industry.

After a decade of flooding the market with cheap fossil fuels, investors have cut back on production.

The disruptions, and the subsequent circumventions, have accelerated Amazon and Walmart’s takeover at the expense of independent retailers.

The comic book industry halted production in 2020 and a supply chain crisis bubbled in 2021, hitting retailers and fans alike.

With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.

The yearly turnover rate among long-haul truckers is 94 percent. And you wonder why you’re not getting your orders on time?

A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass.

Negotiations loom between the dockworkers union and shipping companies making record profits.

The Supply Chain Debacle: How bad policy—outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics—broke our supply chains, raised costs and caused shortages.

How concentrating dependence on China upended our economy and added risk