Welter of Shortages Is Driving Inflation, Typified by Halts in U.S. Home Construction
SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Welter of Shortages Is Driving Inflation, Typified by Halts in U.S. Home Construction May 24, 2021 (EIRNS)—The current shortages afflicting production in just about every industry are the result both of pandemic-triggered collapses in demand and production shutdowns during much of 2020, and of the accumulation of furious money-printing by central banks since October 2019 and the U.S. government since May of 2020. Residential construction in North America is now an extreme example, since residential developments are halting construction altogether under t...