Was just listening to Glen Beck talk about a national divorce and on the tail end of the show he talked about this as a opportunity for entrepreneurs to make American made goods and towns and small government that run on America and nothing but. Food for thought

What a concept. Be part of the solution, not the problem.

Unless those US made products contain foreign made components, like airplanes, cars.

Or involve foreign processing, like chickens.

I recently got a warranty mag replacement for my CP33 from FL on THIRD day!
A pack of PMAGs from ND was delivered on THIRD day!
Both by USPS!!!
Apparently, carriers are not busy at all with overseas shipments now, so they process domestic shipments unusually quick.
The lack of trucks and drivers? I don’t believe it.

“…and War.”

SCOOP – #China has stunned US intelligence and military officials by testing a #nuclear capable #hypersonic missile that traveled through low orbit in space, making a full circle around the globe before speeding towards its target.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Dimi/status/ ... s-intel%2F

Is China’s real estate market crashed?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/california ... 225/%3famp

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/china-r ... omist.html

Chinese developer Sinic defaults as Evergrande deadline looms.

Sinic Holdings is increasing the list of defaults across China’s contracted real estate sector as developer Evergrande is approaching the market this weekend to settle interest payments on offshore bonds.

According to Bloomberg data, in line with last week’s warning, Hong Kong-listed Sinick defaulted to a $ 246 million bond due Monday, $ 206 million from a luxury developer. Added default. Fantasia Holdings this month.

Asian bond markets for high-risk corporate issuers after Evergrande, the world’s most debt-rich real estate developer, missed bond payments in late September, raising concerns about a slowdown in China’s real estate sector Borrowing costs soared in a few weeks.

Official figures released on Tuesday disappointed GDP data the day before, showing that real estate production rose 8.2% in the first nine months of the year, but fell 1.6% in the third quarter. rice field. Any quarter since the pandemic began.

Evergrande did not initially pay interest on dollar-denominated debt on September 23, but has not yet been announced, triggering a 30-day grace period ending on Saturday, which could result in a formal default. .. Advisers to bondholders Lack of “meaningful involvement” From the company.

Evergrande also said it will pay interest on onshore bonds on Tuesday and will pay in a statement earlier. Reuters reported that payments were made on Tuesday.

Friday Central Bank of China Weighed On the first evergrande situation, an official at the People’s Bank of China blamed the company’s problems and said the spillover to the financial system was “controllable.”

The PRC is experiencing a shortage of resources. It lacks water and imports more energy and food than anyone else in the world, as its own natural resources have been depleted by relentless exploitation. Economic growth is becoming more expensive. In the next thirty years, the workforce will be decreased by 200 million, the costs of supporting retired will triple, up to thirty percent of the budget. Independent economists estimate that real economic growth in 2019 could have been only two percent. Labor productivity has been falling over the past ten years. China's debt has reached 300 percent of GDP. At the same time, external conditions are more and more unfavorable for China, as its competitors. led by the United States, are more and more clearly pursuing containment strategy.
So it was all expected.

Kinda remind me of how Japan was in late 1930s, the need to source materials to feed the economic beast. Not exactly the same, but both has an insatiable appetite for success on the world stage in different time period.

Speaking of chassis....

My job today is to take reefer cans on chassis and park them. Well, there isn't one single available 40' chassis in the yard, so its gonna be a looooooong day.

There's a line of atleast 10 street rigs waiting for one also.

The raw materials still get stuck on ships. My company (3.5 Billion per year roofing manufacturer) has had a ship with raw materials for PMMA resin production stuck offshore since last May.

May of 2020, or 2021?