Lovely view. Pity it’s blocking the supply chain.

[Bloomberg]( Follow Us [Get the newsletter]( [America’s Supply Chain Collides With California’s Nimbyism]( — Virginia Postrel Ryan Petersen, the chief executive of logistics company [Flexport](, recently rented a boat to get a close look at what was happening at the port of Long Beach, California. He then[took to Twitter]( to report what he’d learned about why two of the nation’s largest ports — Long Beach and Los Angeles — have come to a virtual standstill. “In a full 3 hour loop through the port complex, passing every single terminal, we saw less than a dozen containers get unloaded,” he wrote. There were plenty of cranes, he observed, but nearly every spot holding containers was filled. With empties clogging the available space, new containers carrying goods from sea or land had nowhere to go. The result was a supply-chain logjam on an epic scale. It turned out that the main problem wasn’t an absolute space constraint but a local zoning regulation. Long Beach [prohibits]( companies from stacking offloaded containers more than two high. The law is not a safety regulation but an aesthetic one: City officials decided that stacks of containers more than 8 feet high were too ugly to tolerate. So the voters in Long Beach gained a modest improvement in the view while the entire national — indeed global — economy suffered from less efficient shipping. Read the [whole thing](. [China Has Started Making the Same Mistakes as the Soviets]( — Hal Brands [Democrats Should Be Thanking Sinema and Manchin]( — Karl W. Smith [Rogers Chairman Fires Board for Firing Him for Firing CEO]( — Matt Levine [Are We Heading for a Repeat of the 2018 Stocks Selloff?]( — John Authers [The U.S. Should Rethink Public-Service Loan Forgiveness]( — Bloomberg’s editorial board [Billionaire Issa Brothers Face $1 Billion Asda Setback]( — Andrea Felsted [To Tax Billionaires, Democrats Should Keep It Simple]( — Alexis Leondis [Airlines Are Getting Ready to Fly Into an Uncertain Future]( — David Fickling [Three Reasons Inflation Isn’t Here to Stay]( — Tyler Cowen This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership.  Like Bloomberg Opinion Today? [Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access and get much, much more](. You’ll receive our unmatched global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. [Learn more](. You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Bloomberg.com]( | [Contact Us]( [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( | [Ad Choices]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022