The economic data coming in the past week is in alignment with prior forecasts. Bottom line, energy driven inflation has collapsed consumer spending, inventories climbing, vendors are cancelling orders, and this is peak season for transpacific shipping- which has now recorded the most rapid drop in history.
A single transpacific container shipment cost $19,000 in 2021, then $14,500 in 2022 as the intentional slowdown began. Now it’s only $3,900 as entire fleets of cargo shipments are cancelled due to lack of demand by U.S. purchasers.
Folks, get ready…. because it’s not going to get better. Prior farm costs, an outcome of energy price increases, are now reaching the supply chain. Food costs will continue increasing throughout the holiday season.
(Wall Street Journal) […] Trans-Pacific shipping rates have plummeted roughly 75% from year-ago levels. The transportation industry is grappling with weaker demand as big retailers cancel orders with vendors and step up efforts to cut inventories. FedEx Corp. recently said it would cancel flights and park cargo planes because of a sharp drop in shipping volumes. On Thursday, Nike Inc. said it was sitting on 65% more inventory in North America than a year earlier and would resort to markdowns.
[…] One response to the melting demand has been to reduce sailing trips. In September, container capacity offered by ship operators in the Pacific was down 13%, dropping the equivalent of 21 ships that can each move 8,000 containers in a single voyage, from a year earlier, according to shipping-data providers Xeneta and Sea-Intelligence.
For the two weeks starting Oct. 3, a total of about 40 scheduled sailings to the U.S. West Coast from Asia and 21 sailings to the East Coast from Asia have been scrapped, according to the data companies as well as customer advisories viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Typically at this time of year, an average of two to four sailings a week are blanked, the industry’s term for canceled sailings.
[…] “In the first week of October, one-third of previously announced capacity will be blanked and for the second week, it will be around half,” said Peter Sand, chief analyst at Xeneta. “The downturn pace in recent weeks has been very fast and it looks like carriers misread the low volumes of a nonexistent peak season.”
The period between late summer and early fall typically is the busiest time of year for the largest carriers, as retailers and other importers build inventories ahead of the holiday shopping season. (more)
All of this has to do with the intentional destruction of the oil, coal and gas industry. Western national economic collapse is a feature of the Build Back Better agenda. The economy will continue to be lowered until it small enough to be replaced by “climate friendly” energy resources, windmills and solar farms.
The more consumers demand to keep their standard of living, the harder the central banks will squeeze to inflict the pain. The western leaders and their banking benefactors do not want us owning things that require energy resources. The economic pain will continue (in western nations) until citizens acquiesce to eating bugs and sustainable algae cakes, while taking mass transportation instead of personal vehicles.
I guess Pete solved the LA port backup problem. /s
Yes right after breastfeeding.
Yes giving Americans an ice water enema !
The leftist parasitic class has declared war on average citizens .
To quote Jordan Peterson “If you fear strong men wait till you see what weak men will do !
gr8 description: “leftist PARASITIC CLASS”.
And weak they are. You know exactly the kind of kids the Democrat ruling class were in HS. And now they have power and money. A highly dangerous and volatile combination. But make no mistake, these soy boy oddballs will revert to character and get “bullied” off the playground.
We didn’t like them then … and we like them less now.
Don’t you mean “chest feeding”. That’s what they’re calling it now.
Come on ,only real.men use Old Spice.
His partners breast milk tastes like old spice
You win the internet prize of the day Tiffthis!!!!
You had to go there.
🤢 🤮 🤮
OR old something else that’s ROTTED WITH AGE.
Smells like Teen Spirit.
More like Old Spouse.
Chestfeeding!
Marcus, be nice. You know that you are required to say chestfeeding.
Someone needs to send a chopper out 50 miles to see if their still parked out there.
Thank You Communist Democrats
I will show you my appreciation at my choosing !
Will they allow Trump to win in 2024? Would Trump even want to run knowing what he has to deal with? This is going to be a hard ship to turn around.
This is easy to turn around. The first basic step is to reverse every executive order issued by Biden. Deregulate all industries. Drill and frack. Make deals with Canada and Mexico for oil importations. Throw in Venezuela, if you want. Make more pipelines. Make gasoline engines great again. Restore tariffs against China and kick out the Chinese spies and Chinese police stations on our land.
Expel the illegal aliens allowed in by Biden and secure the border. Strip big pharma of its immunity and recognize the disaster called the covid vaccine and prosecute everybody who pushed the big covid scam. Shutter the FBI and CIA and replace it with something that respects the Constitution. Eliminate the Fed. Release the J6’ers. Go after the brains behind antifa and blm. Make a deal with Russia to stop the war in Ukraine – that is a money pit – and that has nothing to do with us. Stop the expansion of NATO.
Fund the police. Stop the trans, gay, and gay strip clubs madness in the schools. Fire the far left activists and the people who hire them into the schools. Eliminate the common core and the department of Education. Roll back Title IV to its original meaning. Go after election fraud and those who do it.
Eliminate databases which track gun owners including separate credit card indicators for gun purchasers.
Let all of this happen in the first year of Trump’s second term. Oh, hire Flynn to head ODI.
That is why the deep state is fighting like hell to keep Trump and people like him out of power.
Great platform! I’d vote for a Trump/Gumm ticket… 🙂
NATO is over. Biden blew it up with the pipelines. It is quite possible the EU and WEF are also blown up.
Let us pray that is true!
From your keyboard to God’s ears.
WEF’s plan to subjugate Germany and the the rest of the EU follows.
German officials can claim there is nothing they can do to help with the pipeline gone.
German economy tanks, taking the rest of the EU down – which will then pull us down as the $$ flows toward the BRICS nations, away from the petro dollar.
This is both a game and a dance.
Excellent.
You forgot to shut down libtard TV.
All this wishful thinking about changing course and reversing Biden’s EO’s is folly. First off, Trump can’t get reelected–Dominion systems won’t let him. So given that, your entire premise fails.
There is no political remedy for what we face.
The DS wants civil war. Bill Gates just said so. That’s not an attempt at reverse psychology. Why would we play into their strategy?
Conservative hispanics have taken a 65 point swing from 2 years ago, according to a recent poll. From D +9 to R +56.
They woke up.
That is the winning move. There are tens of millions or even hundreds of millions more of us than them.
The truth about the rigged voting is coming out.
Their schemes and algorithms don’t work if we refuse to early vote and show up at the polls at 3 p.m. on election day.
The Supreme Court is hearing a case on who makes the rules. The Constitution says the state legislatures do. That means that if the court that overturned Roe simply reads the Constitution as written, it will find that the 2020 vote in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania was unconstitutional. Invalid. Void.
The diamonds must then be returned. And every law, executive order, and regulation issued or signed by the resident becomes void ab initio as well.
Boom. There’s your solution.
You seem to believe that the primary process this year, with the change in behavior of only voting on the day, has been unnoticed by the fraudsters.
Of course they have watched and are simply doing what they have done before:
Prepare ballots ahead of time to deliver to polling places after stopping the counting in the wee hours of the morning; taking days to finish the job with the windows boarded up so no one can watch the fraud.
If SCOTUS uphold the Constitution, it will not effect 2020 results without additional lawfare.
Trump is holding rallies regularly and has every intention of running in 2024. I doubt it is what he “wants”. It is what he must do to save his family and the country. If he does not win in 2024, they will continue to harass him with lawfare until he dies. He now has steely resolve to quote Bannon.
“You will own nothing and be happy”. Maybe, if you are permanently stoned. Things are going to get decidedly more interesting, and soon.
I am certain it will come down to the ammo box eventually, just a matter of timing. Keeping the powder dry… for now. In the meantime I am working within my means and doing what I can to connect with the like minded in my community. Fellowship is paramount so we that can help each other’s friends and families out during the hard times.
Agreed, fellowship of likeminded individuals is of the utmost importance.
IMO one benefit of the Scamdemic was the outing of less than individuals.
The crowd ( un vaxxed) or those that only took the two because because of severe repercussions if they didn’t are walking taller, smiling more and moving forward.
The others look dulled and fearful.
Cheers!
I buy a box or two of various rounds almost every week. When I travel to an out of home state property, I buy more there and store it there.
Hope you’re aware of Ammoseek dot com.
So you’ve got a ton of ammo…great. What are you going to do when they (whoever is attacking you) firebomb your house? Do you think you can grab all that ammo and whisk it out the door, shooting all the while?
I don’t think there will be anyone to shoot at except maybe looters if the whole thing collapses. The government will just take our “fweedom” like they did during covid and if we argue about it we may find our bank account frozen like in Canada. That being said I would like to arm myself – suggestions on what type of weapon to start with?
Start with a simple 12ga shotgun.
They INSIST ON THE AMMO BOX, don’t they. There’s no other way with these absurd fools. Certainly no reasoning gets through to them. No decency gets through to them. They’re total selfish, destructive satanists.
They are mass murderers
No … they are mass (self absorbed) narcissist. The worst possible people to ever exist. Everything else they do is for free including mass murder.
They enjoy mass murder. Let us not forget their biggest blood sacrifice of all to Baal, Moloch, and Satan himself. Unborn and now even the just born.
I saw that the Unplanned Parenthood butchers are putting mobile butcher shops along the highways near border states that have changed their laws. Evil is ALWAYS looking for an angle.
Pray without ceasing. God’s Grace has returned after 50 years of darkness. Pray for God’s speed.
God Bless America Again! 🙏
The Babylon Bee calls abortion child sacrifice.
Ritual child sacrifice is also part of gender transition. Slicing off a child’s penis or slicing off a girls breasts, removing a child’s ovaries is a very profitable business. Vanderbilt University Hospital is among the many hospitals that earn huge fees from the physicians, nurses, psychologists, etc that perform child sacrifice.
“You will own nothing and be happy”. Maybe, if you are permanently stoned.
That’s the plan as cannabis is legalized across the country for recreational use.
YOLO (cannabis ETF) shares are down over 80% from its high in 2020 and more states are legalizing recreational use.
It’s now legal to grow your own here in the Old Dominion.
It’ll be interesting to see how much they’ve coordinated with corporations to prevent massive layoffs ahead of the midterms. A lot of these companies (e.g. FedEx) can’t “park planes” and keep pilots working, for example.
Watch for Republicans to start talking about an “economic rescue package” to bail out the regime.
I think it’s finally here. OPEC had an interesting announcement today. Tick Tock…..and that’s meant for all of us. It’s really kinda bitter sweet. On one hand I know this is really really going to be rough. On the other it’s going to make me laugh at the sheep watching their fragile reality get blown to hell. If I could give any advise it would be to buckle up and embrace the suck. Oh and also be very wary of the sheep. Haha you think they’re crazy now. 😳
2008 on steroids. The sheep are so dumb they still buy the dip. Get it. Sheep dip. I guess that’s not very funny.
“Sheep Dip” guess that’s not very funny.
Perhaps “Dip Sheep’s”?….has a nicer ring to it
lol….and reminds me of a Gary Larson comic about wolves enjoying Carol’s sheep dip.
🙂
“Watch for Republicans to start talking about an “economic rescue package” to bail out the regime.”
Most definitely.
Their pants pockets are surely busting at the seams.
Just a heads-up on your headline stating “Transpacific shipping drops 75%…”, when as you state below it is the “shipping rates” dropping 75%.
Ocean shipping orders are signaling a big drop in consumer demand (cnbc.com)
Not disputing any of that, just that ocean shipping orders are not down 75% as the headline indicated.
was backing your point.
The shipping rate were already seriously inflated from the Covid disruptions. They still much higher than pre-scamdemic rates.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-shipping-rates-still-falling-what-will-be-the-new-normal
That’s quite a discrepancy you’ve picked up on.
Thanks for the correction
Its orfers of manufactured durable goods, so products from CCP CHINA.
Already CCP CHINA is experiencing major economic problems, with a housing bust, and COVID shutdowns of large cities and ports, and now this.
How much more can THEIR economy take, before collapsing?
Charges for shipping are down, but diesel fuel is Up, gotta be putting Mitchs inlaws in a heck of a squeeze!
Sounds like “no Christmas for YOU”, not even a lump of coal in yer stocking.
Gonna be the worst Christmas for retail since the Depression…
Trying to understand Dutch…trans-Pacific shipping ‘COSTS’ down 75%. A reduction due to lower demand of SHIPPING.
And as you pointed out, and something I have always held in reserve…if China is making all of our US goods but we are no longer buying any of it…how long before THEY collapse?
they are in the midst of it now….real estate constitutes a full 30% of their economy and 75% of household wealth and it is in a state of collapse at the moment with no government bailout
Target, Walmart, etc. already canceled Christmas….their Christmas orders were canceled so their shelves will be bare
This is why I fail to see how globalism benefits woke multinational corporations. Sure, maybe in the short term these corporations can exploit cheap foreign slave laborers to squeeze more profit, but when your ‘woke’ green policies crush the middle class, and greatly lower consumer demand, who buys your products anymore?
How is shooting oneself in the foot considered a profitable corporate decision by all these woke business leaders?
Target, Walmart, Nike, Amazon, etc. have vast amounts of unsold goods. Big sales are scheduled this week, to help clear out the merchandise.
Bannon says it is collapsing.
Ok I got triggered lump of coal. Fossil fuel.
We play bingo. Everyone contributes wanton objects as prizes. Kids and adults all play. The excitement is epic. People shout, yell, cry and steal. A riotous time is had by all. Laugh until you cry.
shipping rates have dropped BECAUSE the shipping has dropped….did you miss the part about parking ships and planes?
How many more stories like this need to be posted until people realize this is centrally planned and orchestrated on a global level.
It’s almost to the point that if a person doesn’t realize this by now, they never will.
The media hides it. They won’t report or they’ll only report the spikes in costs while never investigating why. I hear it everyday on mainstream news…..prices up…but shhhhh don’t say why.
They not only hide it, but many times report the exact opposite or create a “fluff” piece to knowingly provide cover.
I say ‘knowingly’ only because someone whose career is spent reporting the events of the day ( the “news” ), can’t possibly be this blind.
Mind boggling …
There’s exceptions, thinking much like that Don Lemon.
Its the big pump and dump. It takes time for the big funds to divest without damaging the market with sell side pressure. Meanwhile the dollar cost averagers maintain price. At the appropriate time, they will crash the market, then hard times force middle class to sell out at the bottom, with the funds consolidating ownership.
You will own nothing.
This is how they will do it.
Not all of them. The lyrics to “I Make My Living Off The Evening News” are actually pretty close to the truth.
I’ve already forwarded this article to all my friends.
Have since heard back from across the US and Canada. They are in a state of shock but will now forward onto others.
Who says we have to wait for the stinking media. Let them eat cake!
We can carry the water now and get the message out.
We had at least 30 Guatamalan girls dropped off at an Orange County, NY airport in the last two days. No one is reporting where they are today.
Nobody put their butts right back on a plane to Guatemala? Why not? They don’t belong here.
Use to stable my horses in Goshen – lot of that there!
Have you guys heard of Dr Malone? Even though he’s traveled the world speaking and writing about the clot shot, 99% of sheeple have not heard of him or his writings.
Whenever I mentioned to some of my family and friends the findings of Dr. Malone and who he was, they thought I was nuts. They proceeded to get their clot shots. After 3 died and several got blood clots they started listening to me. Too late for some.
Yes, we have all heard Dr. Malone and many other doctors that have been speaking out about the EUA only mRNA injection.
Yes, I believe he created the Mrna *process* (not the vax) – he said we should all be concerned about the medical profession today. Yikes!
You must be new here if your asking if we know who Dr. Robert Malone is.
There is no hope for the willfully, militantly stupid and ignorant.
“Militantly stupid”
Brilliant description !
“…this is centrally planned and orchestrated on a global level.”
I don’t believe that for a second.
Nobody is orchestrating anything.
The economic system has become too complex and no one knows how to control anything about it.
All these economic geniuses like powell, the congress and the president, want everyone to believe they have control of a lever which, when they pull it, will make the big bad economic armegedon go away. Trouble is, they are pulling levers which are working against each other.
Case in point: powell raises interest rates to lower inflation while biden and congress raise inflation by spending created money on such things as, for example, a war.
That level of stupidity at that level of government is deadly.
“Nobody is orchestrating anything.”
Because if they were, we would be reading about it in the papers or watching it in the news ?
You assume people like Powell and Yellen are the independent thinkers, pulling the levers.
Do you care about gas prices? How about food prices?
I’ll bet you do- big time. Right? Just like me.
Well get this – powell doesn’t care a teensy bit about gas or food prices.
You and he are out of sync.
To determine whether or not to raise interest rates (i.e., take money out of your wallet) powell and all the fed biggees stare at inflation through a prism called the “Core PCE” index. That index they are looking at excludes the very things you and I worry about – gas and food prices. Get the idea?
powell lives in a different world than your world. Just like biden lives in a different economic world, just like congress lives in a different economic world. But they all pull an economic lever. Do you think they are all pulling in the same direction? And do you think they know whats going to happen when they pull that lever?
Like I said, nobody is orchestrating that economic monstrosity.
None of this activity is an happy accident, or coincidence.
The depth of the purposeful coordination and destruction demonstrates planning by the parties that be.
I don’t need Sundance to point that out for me to understand that it is true.
I am being incredibly charitable when I say the following,
You are either obtuse,niave, both, or a plant.
Perhaps you think that such orchestration is only done at the upper levels of individual nations? With such a perspective, then your conclusion is logical.
However, many already know that it is not being done at that level.
In fact, many believe (mostly because they announce it in advance) that it is the WEF (through national leaders that have been indoctrinated / trained by them) that is doing the orchestration.
Yes, even in the USA our leaders are doing the bidding of WEF because they are part of it. It is one big game vying for the leadership positions of the new world order. “Biden: there’s gonna be a new world order and we’ve just go to lead it.” paraphrase
If you take the global perspective rather than just watching the US, you can readily see what and how this is happening. Continue watching Europe, you will see what is planned for us. We are being saved for last.
This is our blessing: to know what is coming and prayerfully decide what actions to take to save our nation.
Going “green” is a global orchestrated plan. To get there, global downsizing must occur.
The US and EU are in lockstep with this plan.
You are ignoring what is right before you.
Many countries ARE NOT PLAYING!
Notably the BRICS countries that represent over 40% of the world population.
The World Economic forum is a misnomer – they will never represent “The world”.
Alas consumer spending is minor compared to the inevitable mega trend capture of the US vote by mendicant economic immigrants.
When Texas is won by the left, you will have seen the last non-cultural marxist president.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/05/data-foreign-born-voting-population-rises-in-75-of-swing-states-since-2016/
Saying the moderately increased anti-left Hispanic vote will save it is fantasy. Poor people always vote for other people’s money. It’s not even about illegals, the massive numbers of legal immigrants will do the job for them.
Demographics is destiny.
“When Texas is won by the left, you will have seen the last non-cultural marxist president.”
True. And just remember, while the Rs were in power, you saw nada point zip effort by them to reduce illegal immigration.
Recently there has been a massive swing in the political leanings of Latino voters. MASSIVE.
They get hit HARD by $6 a gallon gas and food price increases.
And, most LEGAL immigrants are NOT poor, and do not vote Democrat, they are very patriotic Americans, many of whom moved here to get away from this crap.
The whole “Demographics is destiny” narrative is proving to be invalid, and based on false assumptions.
“and do not vote Democrat,”
Nonsense.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/compare/party-affiliation/by/state/among/immigrant-status/immigrants/
“most LEGAL immigrants are NOT poor”
Nonsense.
Median legal immigrant annual income $32,000.
ie. poor.
Actually, all the legal Asian and ME immigrants I’ve known are Democrats and not poor. They vote just like native born affluent coastal suburban dwellers.
You aren’t paying attention….
“Median legal immigrant annual income $32,000.”
A 2019 number.
And they despise the cultural attacks on the family, children and Christianity.
One potential saving grace may come when a large number of illegal aliens return to their countries of origin because of the massive inflation here. The great American dream is about to become their worst nightmare. When their friends and family ‘back home’ tell them how much cheaper it is they may leave.
Where I live I’d say at least 50% of the population is illegal. Back in 08 they left in massive droves and went back home. For a couple of years it was really nice, the difference was obvious.
There has to be a popular uprising. This cannot remain. Yes the WEF and its bankers will never acquiesce but politicians will. Their power is only there as long as people allow it. Look at how the country has reacted to Biden. He’s a national joke. You can say elections don’t matter any more but at some levels they do. The dems may talk a big game but they know a culling is coming in November and Biden is part of why. It can be done. These bastards can’t win.
You’re assuming we have legitimate elections , we don’t . The fraud is off the charts .
But Presidunce is still in the White House even if he is a joke and has dementia.
Our enemy is Global, hence our fight is global.
Chech Republic had a demostration of 100,000 in Prague, with demonstrations in 10 other cities, as well.
Germany will have theirs, soon.
All this “all is lost” commenting is quite tiresome, frankly.
Germany has been having theirs in massive numbers, multiple places and days. It’s just ignored by US media.
Bidumb/klamidia are a humiliation ritual for the American people.
The Congress, with few exceptions, is the sadistic, satanic locust swarm consuming everything.
Joe is an international joke
My build … was better
Like it or not, we will live in interesting times.
Dark Days ahead seem certain, the power of harsh deep state enforcement will be required to reach home plate. That power flows from empty store shelves, emergency dictates and decrees, and most certainly from the barrel of a gun.
That is a Chinese curse evidently, May you live in interesting times.
Sure is sounding like what those Austrians are calling ‘the great re-set’ is what normal people would call going back to the stone age.
Do those idiots at the WEF and their acolytes really believe they are immune from personal backlash that will inevitably be focused toward them?
So far they seem to arrogant. Their hubris will hopefully bring them down before t hey get too far.
Will this forecast change if the new Congress is republican?
Or will the economy continue to decline with the BBB (Biden Be Bogus) agenda in place?
To believe that changing the flag, over the Capital bldg, from D to R will make any substantive difference, is beyond naive and without ANY justification.
However, that does NOT mean “all is lost”; the answer ISN’T with “Republicons” nor is it with Congress.
The answer is with MAGA “New Republicans”, and with STATE Governments.
PA is lost. Our city neighborhood is becoming crime infested with nightly car break ins and shootings..This will drop the RE values that have gone up considerably in the last 10 years..our 7 year tenant, for the first time, shorted me rent, my one unit was destroyed by tenants collecting pandemic relief money, couldn’t touch them because of the eviction moratoreum..upper tenant is a slow pay with a sob story every month. I haven’t raised rents in years and my airbnb rates are way below market rate. I’m struggling to break even..I just want to pack it up and move to FL.!!
Production of steel is the backbone of every state economy. Without steel you have no infrastructure. Coal is one of the key ingredients in producing steel. Coal + iron= steel and coal is a fossil fuel. No one has any idea on the amount of Btu’s required to produce steel. Wind and solar is not going to cut it, so what does that mean? A declining state in disrepair.
Red states will do steel.
OR aluminum……melting it requires HUGE amounts of electricity….it is why aluminum plants around the country are closing
Someone else on CTH said it best: “you can create a windmill using steel. You cannot create steel using a windmill”.
Didn’t OPEC just announce plans to reduce production?
And has Sundance commented much on who destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines? That could get hairy.
Sounds like we did.
https://www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/the-nord-stream-2-pipeline-sabotage
Wow. Excellent link, thank you!
You’re welcome. Citizenfreepress had it yesterday.
Not certain if they were all destroyed…
https://www.voanews.com/a/danes-nord-stream-2-pipeline-seems-to-have-stopped-leaking-/6772212.html
Sea water that flooded the inside of the pipes will corrode them and permanently ruin them if they are not repaired quickly.
It looks like the Rooskies will not be able to repair them. FJB is pushing us to war.
President Trump offered to negotiate a peace deal, which I believe he could do. Only derision from the mainstream media.
“The bottom line is that reconstruction is possible, as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak stressed: “There are technical possibilities to restore the infrastructure, it requires time and appropriate funds. I am sure that appropriate opportunities will be found.””
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-whole-chessboard-about-be-radically-changed
If Putin closed N2 a few days/weeks ago, possibly there was still residue gas still in the line which had yet to be deposited in Germany. This is a very naive guess.
OPEC+ says a 2M bbl/ day reduction in production and Slo Joe says he will up his release from the SPR until 8 Nov
It looks like shipping rates are down 75% and shipping voyages are currently down (“blanked”) 50%. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the remaining vessels on the water are specialty wind turbine blade carriers, which are being paid for through GND funds.
Regardless, we can infer that China and the rest of Asia will be, or already are, in a world of hurting. Perhaps even worse than we are right now, though we’re being driven purposefully into the abyss by the administration, SPR drawdowns notwithstanding.
Thank you for clarifying!
From the article above
“One response to the melting demand has been to reduce sailing trips. In September, container capacity offered by ship operators in the Pacific was down 13%, dropping the equivalent of 21 ships that can each move 8,000 containers in a single voyage”
Think of it as having a “fire sale”. To try to pickup volume again… at the old price.
The rates are really just back down to what they were before COVID with was about $3000 per container unit 20 ft long.
Most units are the 40 foot double unit variety for easy truck shipping. ($6000)
Then you have the “new unit” that amazon designed especially for themselves. Sundance covered it here
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/14/the-california-version-of-the-green-new-deal-and-an-october-16-2020-epa-settlement-with-transportation-is-whats-creating-the-container-shipping-backlog-working-ca-ports-24-7-will-not-help-here/
Great reminder regarding the real reason ports in California are/were backlogged.
Just more of the build back better. These people are in so far over their head. Yes I understand that a lot of this is on purpose, but I think it’s collapsing faster than they thought.
In calculus, it’s an inflection point…when the rate of change goes it a new direction. Commonly, a tipping point. When the cosmos says hot sh** is coming down….step out of the way.
God wins, regardless of what we think.
Amen
Simply put…fulcrum.
no, it IS called an inflection point….it is where the convex-concave curves change direction…….fulcrum is a balance point for a lever or pendulum
I love this Treehouse.
Yes. Change in sign of the second derivative.
[…] One response to the melting demand has been to reduce sailing trips.
All of this has to do with the intentional destruction of the oil, coal and gas industry. Western national economic collapse is a feature of the Build Back Better agenda. The economy will continue to be lowered until it small enough to be replaced by “climate friendly” energy resources, windmills and solar farms.
So………We’re seeing a substantial drop in shipping traffic, and substantial drops in the use of fossil fuels. Can somebody please point out to me on a chart somewhere the exact amount of temperature change to the earth’s environment this economic collapse has had. I would like to see the hard numbers please. It must have had a major impact, right? Right??
They are going to pretend that this precipitous drop in usage of carbon based fuels is what saved the Earth from a erroneously projected fiery inferno.
We all know that is merely the excuse to cover for ulterior motives. It was never about saving the planet.
Agreed. I get this feeling that we’re due to hear some report, crafted from a bucket full of numbers, that will be the “SEE, I TOLD YOU SO!!” they’ve long wanted to rub in our faces. All that’s needed is evidence, be it real or imagined.
Hot air.
Sadly there will be more criminals creating victims.
This is by design to cancel and/or destroy the holiday season. They did it two years with the Plandemic, and now through high costs in food, gas, oil, etc. and less shipping supplies available. Ugh!!! The stores that I shop in the Hampton Roads area such as Home Goods, At Home, Kohls, TJ Maxx, Michaels, Marshalls, etc. are well-stocked but sell out as soon as new items come in. You have to get there as soon as it arrives or it will be gone.
They really, really, really hate Christmas and Christians.
The Christmas of 2020 was supposed to be the last one. Churches shut down, no singing, no family gatherings, and the not the Pope posing a figure with a sword over the baby Jesus in the creche, along with a Babylonian goddess figure and a space alien. Macy’s in NY outfitted in demonic purple lights. . .
A true glimpse of a world under a demonic boot, the world the WEF wants.
Know what we are fighting for.
Know what we are fighting against.
The greater the adversity, the bigger the triumph.
I am a survivor, I will not be a victim of my own making. I aim to be steadfast, to the end.
Nothing better than reading the story of the Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve!!!
What goods are selling out? I haven’t been in those stores in about a year. There’s very little if anything that I need from them.
Ditto!
I have been to kohls- and there was no other customer there-in a gigantic store. This was on a Friday at 1 pm- prime shopping time.
Or…don’t buy anything. Bake cookies for Christmas.
homemade means made with love helmslod
Transpacific Shipping Drops 75% During Peak Season
Does anyone have a clue (other than Sundance and those so interested) in the volume of shipping we are talking about? That is depression-level (on a global scale) economic collapse.
One can only assume the powers-that-be are prepared for the response. Or, perhaps they arranged this scenario…..
Yes, the headline is not quite relaying the actually numbers from what I can tell.
Seems as though shipping cost rates are down 75%, yet the actual shipping capacity is down anywhere from 20% to 50%. Trying to understand as well.
From the article above
“One response to the melting demand has been to reduce sailing trips. In September, container capacity offered by ship operators in the Pacific was down 13%, dropping the equivalent of 21 ships that can each move 8,000 containers in a single voyage”
I’ve seen smaller cargo containers being pulled on Interstate 40 here in NC. I’m assuming that is what is meant by “container capacity offered by ship operators…” It says “Pacific,” but I’m thinking some of them came to the east coast (maybe Wilimington, NC).
“All of this has to do with the intentional destruction of the oil, coal and gas industry. Western national economic collapse is a feature of the Build Back Better agenda. The economy will continue to be lowered until it small enough to be replaced by “climate friendly” energy resources, windmills and solar farms.”
re- referencing the CNBC story from this week… they stuck this right in the middle of the article!
what does this have anything to do with a current story about shipping demand?
CNBC drive-in subliminal advertising?
Ocean shipping orders are signaling a big drop in consumer demand (cnbc.com)
I was at Lowe’s earlier this week. Six packs of lettuce and celery starts were $5.98 each. Broccoli starts of the same size were $4.78 in early September and $3.48 this past spring. A plastic standalone hose reel cost me $45; the model I currently have for the front of the house previously cost $40 but is now $70. Both are made in America. I almost didn’t buy the $45 one but figured breaking a leg by tripping over the loose hose on the back of the house would be more expensive.
I ordered some items online from Walgreens on Sunday and FedEx delivered the order a day early on Tuesday. Was it a timing issue (i.e. got to the Charlotte transfer location in time to be loaded on the truck) or was there room in the truck for it because orders are down? I don’t know.
A person in Canada was posting on another blog about the grocery specials she got on potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. and it sounds like they were loss leaders heading into Canadian Thanksgiving this coming Monday. I hope we get some of those in November but I’m not counting on them.
As far as giving up my car, my town has no local public transportation so that should be interesting. The 2020 census put the population at 50K.
Has anyone seen any turkeys?
I haven’t but we don’t get turkey for Thanksgiving. However, Lowe’s is selling Halloween candy. Yes, really.
Wanted to can some cranberry/orange sauce. Found oranges but no fresh cranberries. Every store send “they’re not in season”. REALLY, it’s October.
No bugs and no forced mass transportation for me.
Add terrorism, sinking a few ships, and shipping will evaporate overnight. Especially true in the movement of petroleum and natural gas.
Atlas will shrug.
Everything I just read above is about Building Back Florida.
If a building has flood insurance the funds will be ready to rebuild when you are; rebuild with solar housing, solar business buildings and solar schools. Workers will pour in to rebuild and earn the Insurance and Govt. money. So far so good.
Can the USA or Canada supply the lumber? The pipes and wires? Concrete and insulation? Windows and doors? Flooring and roofing?
But, there won’t be refrigerators, stoves and washing machines, lamps and lights, air conditioners or furnaces, routers and TV’s to plug into the *sky power*. Where will the furniture, linens, pots and pans, chairs, tools, clothing and toys come from? And when?
Can 49 states together develop a plan; find and send the stuff homes are made of? Traumatized people, children, can’t live in tents under rain and strong sun for years. How many are homeless? It’s sinking in.
Well hopefully the illegals and people from the northeast will go home and less will be needed by the rest in Florida.
So the Chinese think this is better for them than having Donald Trump as America’s President?
So the Waltons (Wal-Mart) think this is better for them than having Trump as a President?
So Bezos (Amazon) thinks this is better than having Trump for a President?
The phenomenon of the left-wing business leader (the limousine liberal) is shaping a new America.
In 1930 Herbert Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, that destroyed international trade.
Literally a thousand economists signed a letter warning Hoover not to do it. He signed anyway.
The Great Depression began.
Nothing says we need to voyage to Wal-Mart and purchase the astounding range of trash they market.
There exists an enormous gulf between what we will buy, and what we truly must have.
Tap water sustains life. I haven’t consumed Coke for years, consciously and deliberately.
Let’s see who blinks first.
Did you know that Jeff Bezos’s grandfather wasone of the original creators of DARPA’s predecessor?
This is a deeper game than it appears. Assuming Bezos really cares about what happens to Amazon is probably a bad assumption.
Multi-generational. From Bush to Barr (Donald Barr was OSS, and hired Epstein), to Bezos, it all ties back to the 1940’s. OSS, DARPA, CIA.
Link:
https://americandigitalnews.com/index.php/2019/01/11/bezos-grandfather-atomic-energy-commission-darpa-arpa/
“The economy will continue to be lowered until it small enough to be replaced by “climate friendly” energy resources, windmills and solar farms.”
Phew, what is that? 25% of its current size?
Spouse is telling me freight costs were climbing way too high during Covid.
I hope the pain will be bad enough that the poorly informed who voted and cheated for Biden will reconsider their mistake when it comes time to vote in 2024. I hope the pain will be bad enough that those who didn’t bother to vote in 2020 will decide it is necessary for them to vote.
I am done with being sympathetic about people suffering who have caused their own suffering and caused suffering for so many others in this country who don’t deserve to suffer.
Don’t hold your breath. There are none so blind as those who just won’t see.
Somehow, they will blame Trump — because, that’s all they’ve got!
I’m hoping anyone who voted for Biden spends the Winter cold and hungry.
We know this is being done on purpose just like everything we’ve seen since the occupant was installed.
We know John Brennan is a communist and now with the video release of James Comey admitted he is/was a communist on the enemy within on America’s voice how many more are in government and 4th branch ?
I bet China Comms are direct into the WH or maybe instructions are being relayed from the Chinese police department in NY city to the WH thru SDNY and peekaboo
well with the downturn in shipping we will be cutting down on chinese crap.this isn’t gonna sit well with china as we are their biggest market.
Destroy the world economy to force us into buying electric cars.
The slow burn of tyranny of this administration continues.
‘Electric’ cars are dangled like carrots on a stick, so we don’t notice the cattle cars lining up. It’s the old bait and switch routine.
In the meantime, their real plan is to ‘depopulate’ billions on the planet and cull the human herd. So what ‘we’ want for our future is wholly irrelevant to their plan.
As Hellary’s Wikileaks email stated so succinctly, their plan will succeed as long as we, the sheeple, remain “unaware and compliant.”
“A single transpacific container shipment cost $19,000 in 2021… Now it’s only $3,900…”
I can see biden praising his policies, showing this as ‘proof’ that they are lowering prices for the consumer.
The cardboard box supplier corporations have been curtailing production of liner board paper for boxes over the last month. Production curtailment may be extended longer than originally expected. This kind of production slow down has not happened at all for years, and also not to this level.
I simply can’t believe so many still don’t get what is going on.
My advice is precious metals. Take 10% of your wealth, even if its $60 and buy 2 silver ounce coins. Future technology requires tons of silver. Take it off them and make them pay to get it back!
Whatever you chose be sure to buy physical and hold it personally. Non of this certificate crap. I don’t think there’s enough metal out there to cover everyone who claims to own a chunk of precious metals. Talk about a house of cards…….
Unexpectedly.
“The economic pain will continue (in western nations) until citizens acquiesce to eating bugs and sustainable algae cakes, while taking mass transportation instead of personal vehicles.”
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“By 2030, you’ll either be dead or wish you were dead — and you will be happy.”
The October surprise has arrived.Just wondering what day elections will be canceled.
I’m old enough to remember when senior citizens eating dog food was a BAD thing. When those evil Republicans were holding down Social Security increases (sic) … and were forcing Senior citizens to eat dog food. Now … that kind of dietary budgeting is … celebrated. 6uild 6ack 6etter dog food flavors.
I dunno man, bags of dog have increased by $12 a bag at Costco in the last few months…
I’m betting this will add to the problem:
https://www.chronline.com/stories/weyerhaeuser-strike-continues-into-fourth-week-employees-to-vote-on-latest-proposal,301136
Is the outhouse optional?
I keep reading articles on the financial pages blaming lower retail spending on a desire for experiences in a post lockdown world. I wonder if there’s anybody who believes that line?
Well, it’s been a YEAR since “lockdowns” were lifted in most places. How much “experiences” do adults need to get back to normal?
The greenies and WEF’ers will fail. They are building back without a foundation. The foundation would be broad support by we the people who are paying for it one way or another. That foundation is not and will not be there.
They are not even trying to get buy in. They are shoving it down our throats and up our backsides.
Trump’s arrival on the scene made them accelerate their new world order plan. They have no idea how to control or manage the scale of change they are attempting to implement.
Without a foundation their house will collapse upon them. Hopefully beginning in November.
Soon they won’t need to hold cargo ships over the horizon.
This is going to squeeze everywhere. Stop fooling yourself, Sundance. The Dollar is the global reserve currency. Meaning oil/gas/commodities/etc. are bought in dollars. The US is exporting inflation to the rest of the world. Just look at Europe. Their energy crisis is going to blow back EVERYWHERE. Not just in the west. We’re talking NATO countries, BRICS countries and everywhere inbetween. This cycle, this doom loop, creates a demand for more dollars. It’ll go like dominoes until all lines up, then BAM. All at once.
How many people will die due to a lack of chemical fertilizers? If you haven’t asked around, let me tell you, it’s a lot. This isn’t fear porn. This is science and math.
“The economic pain will continue (in western nations) until citizens acquiesce to eating bugs and sustainable algae cakes, while taking mass transportation instead of personal vehicles.”
There’s no reason to think even further acquiescence isn’t in the cards. During the Soviet era, Russians had all sorts of sardonic quips to help blunt their effective captivity.
Here’s one we could dust off:
A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”
If you’d told me a few years ago Americans would drift from rugged individualism into black humor with barely more than a smattering of MAGA t-shirts, I wouldn’t have believed you.
It appears we drifted away from “rugged individualism” long before the “smattering of MAGA t-shirts” appeared. At least we Americans had it going on once upon a time .
What we lost long ago is a battle with popular culture. Hollyweird’s been hawking their bread and circuses crapola since the turn of last century. And the ENEmedia fine tunes and shovels it out to the masses.
Now we have SOCIAL media. Ugh. One big, happy dystopian family.
It will take a lot to correct our current course. And I mean ..a LOT! God will intervene at some point, of that I am certain.
In the meantime, buckle up buckos, because humanity is in for one HELL of a ride!
I wonder what the BigBox-ers will do with the thousands of tons of stuff that can’t be dumped at ANY price.
Just had Lowes call me about carpet they “didn’t have” “had to order” a week ago..now they “have” it..too late..I purchased it elsewhere. Ordered a Dishwasher from our FL Lowes last week..it was delivered the next morning.
Every day we get confirmation of why the 2020 election was stolen.
Standard of Living – What does that mean ? Buying more crap from Chyna ? Maybe it’s the latest of things ?
Standard of living is not remodeling your house every few years as that’s stupidity.
Consumer Culture is like Woke Culture and Transexual Culture.
Maybe it’s what’s comfortable to a person – the softest toilet paper ? The finest wine ? An impeccable house made of the finest materials ? The immaculate grounds, all 40 acres – or more ? How about “three goats and a jug of wine” ? Look that one up. ( https://www.quotes.net/show-quote/7298 )
FJB
Here’s a report on the Liquid Natural Gas shipping rates into Europe.
https://view.em.freightwaves.com/?qs=c5e7f16c34960ee5ee71244e828baadaf2ab1a8da08072140ae2705b80405e810d69047ce3a26d863d3d0768f1521d357f96eba3fcd264f93d6cee0f939aef48378baa89c82173e257ffa6aa76fe4752
Leads me to the question: How would the Russians gain from deliberately disabling Nordstream 1 and 2 natural gas transmission lines into Europe?