From what I’m reading, the troubles should start to pick up now; harbors being quieter, truckers not having work, … Are any shortages noticeable yet?

ETA:

Source: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-virus

Businesses have been filling their inventories. That’s ending now. Economic pain in terms of job losses should accelerate now. It will still take up to a few weeks before inventories run empty, and the full impact hits consumers. Even a full reversal of Trumpism couldn’t prevent knock-on effects that last into next year.

  • IAmJacksRage@lemm.ee
    71·
    6 hours ago

    OP’s data shows the U.S. is stocking up tremendously in April, and then maintaining year-on-year patterns after that with a slight downturn that doesn’t even compensate for April’s glut.

    I haven’t seen this data before but it shows the opposite of the shortage I was expecting.

      • IAmJacksRage@lemm.ee
        31·
        4 hours ago

        Please correct me, then. The surprising moment came when I noticed the vertical axis is for year-on-year change and not raw tonnage.

            • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
              1·
              19 minutes ago

              I think the issue is you’re waiting for the negatives to be equal to the surplus of one month, when the trend (from three points of data so do with that what you will) is negative. So, ostensibly, after enough months of negatives, there will be much, much more negative than positives.