Today on TAP: Some of it is purely opportunistic. We need an excess profits tax and maybe price controls.
Supply Chain
Posted inVideos
⏩ China and the Supply Chain Mess
Robert Kuttner joins Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points to discuss the role of China in gumming up supply chains.
Posted inVideos
⏩ How We Broke the Supply Chain
Watch the writers discuss the special issue, which investigates how outsourcing, monopolies, and just-in-time manufacturing broke our supply chains.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Re-Engineering Our Supply Chains
It’s time for a coherent national logistics system, regulating and coordinating what has been privatized.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Voltage Valley
Building a domestic supply chain, Lordstown, Ohio, is becoming a hub for the electric-vehicle industry.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frackers Restrict the Flow and Raise the Price
After a decade of flooding the market with cheap fossil fuels, investors have cut back on production.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Meat Industry’s Middlemen Are Starving Families and Farmers
How monopolization in the meatpacking and processing industry affects us all
Posted inEconomic Policy
Big Business Games the Supply Chain
The disruptions, and the subsequent circumventions, have accelerated Amazon and Walmart’s takeover at the expense of independent retailers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Warehouse Space Race
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.
