Before supply chain breakdowns and shortages swept the world, buying bits and pieces for an assembly line was often as easy as clicking a button and waiting a few days for delivery. Not anymore — shortages are now the norm.
By Howard Schneider and Timothy Aeppel
“If I have older stock and put it with new,” the colors won’t match, said Rash. “Black is not black is not black.” There’s growing tension among Federal Reserve policymakers over how to gauge the long-term impact on prices. Some Fed policymakers are more convinced than others that price pressures will recede after some of the supply chain disruptions are resolved. How this debate evolves could influence how quickly the Fed moves to reduce the pace of asset purchases launched at the start of the pandemic, and how soon it lifts the policy interest rate from its current level near zero.
New challenges continue to arise, including hurricane disruptions to U.S. oil refineries which is again threatening supplies of plastics and other basic materials. Compounding the current problem are clogged supply lines. With so many manufacturers rushing to build supplies at the same time, the containers, ships, and trucks needed to move the goods often aren’t available, and have soared in cost when they are. That has disrupted some of the mechanisms that normally help keep supplies, and prices, in check.
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