I started out to say that many are talking about the sky falling, but it’s an imaginary sky and so their terror is amusing and stupid to me. Others are warning me that things that have already happened to me are going to happen to me, so look out. Thanks for nothing.
I tried to buy a piece of machinery a little while ago, to expand my business. Your fears of credit drying up are amusing, as all small businessmen’s lines of credit, including mine, freaked out almost a year ago for no good reason, so save me your warnings about it getting bad. I got a notice from the machine tool supplier that the item wasn’t coming and they didn’t know when it would. And their competitors went out of business. And the alternatives still available cost triple and aren’t as good.
For the first time in decades I had the money I needed and the promise of the business I required to support a purchase, and I could not get my hands on the thing I wanted, for no discernible reason. A kind of freakout is required to disrupt this supply chain. I’m not buying Hadron Colliders here; it’s 19th century stuff. And I’m back to 19th century supply chain, apparently.
I get his point. But I am still worried about the sky falling.