😩 Why the Supply-Chain Mess is About to Get Worse 😩

Good morning. Ronald Reagan once quipped that the nine scariest words in the English language.. It’s the monthly jobs numbers today and they’re not going to be pretty and will be possibly the tip of the iceberg as we head into May. [Trading Tips] Good morning. Ronald Reagan once quipped that the nine scariest words in the English language were, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” So the announcement that the government has formed a “supply-chain disruption task force” may sound a bit like a prolonging of the problem rather than a solution of it. The past year has shown the heavy hand of government intervention from local and state pandemic lockdowns to a near-universal basic income from stimulus checks and expanded unemployment benefits. One simple place for the task force to start looking at solutions might be in scaling back those issues, which arguably helped create the disruptions in the first place. Being a government task force, that’s not likely. 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