America faces supply-chain disruption and shortages. Here's why | Matt Stoller

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And at last week's Intermodal Association of North America's Intermodal Expo, where representatives from the shipping, rail, ports and drayage industries spoke, one executive said, "Without fear of regulation, I don't know what will motivate all stakeholders to be at the table."
53% : This too is a story of deregulation.
50% : The specific policies that led to our supply constrained world are lax antitrust, deregulation of basic infrastructure industries like shipping, railroads, and trucking, disinvestment in domestic production, and trade policy emphasizing finance over manufacturing.
45% : Since deregulation in 1980, Wall Street consolidated 33 firms into just seven.
43% : But some point to government spending and money printing at the Fed as worsening the problem, while others suggest it is temporary and will resolve on its own.

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