WHAT COMES NEXT
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Someone suggested making more used cars because there is a shortage. Used cars aren’t the problem – but it’s not about people keeping their old cars on the road longer as an environmental strategy to save landfill space. But instead, it’s a supply chain shortage of chips – from computers to phones to dashboards – there is a delay/short supply issue that trickles through the economy. Is there a housing shortage when populations aren’t growing? Is there a shortage of anything except good information and reliable advice?
In recent days’ headlines, I saw an array of bullish, bearish and confusing assessments of where things are at, right now, in terms of the ‘state of the world.’
It was a bleak week of assassinations, COVID/vaccine controversies continuing as right-wing media debate science … and the world economy is knee-jerking its way to complete operations that are going smoothly, or horribly, depending on where you sit.
What comes next in our domains operates mostly disconnected from the global economy – and yet we are all part of it, but nobody knows what is going on in real-time, so we can all make well-informed decisions independent of the talking heads on TV.
If there was, who wouldn’t want that APP?
Reader feedback:
Mark, I don’t disagree with your list, but think we all probably have our own list of what should be fixed before we continue to waste our money on anything we deem not needed. As usual, our politicians don’t listen to us and the waste will continue and some things that could be fixed won’t be. LH, Lethbridge, AB