Will Trailer prices drop?

Because that would require collusion with every other trailer manufacturer. History is definitive. Cutting production is a competitive environment never works. Somebody always cheats. Andrew Carnegie confessed to his biographer that he was always willing to enter into any cartel agreement as long as he was sure he could be the first to cheat on it. Know who broke the Arab oil embargo back in the 70's? It was Iraq's oil minister, Saddam Hussein. Somebody always cheats. That's why the market is reliable.

 

I bet the Railroad is behind it all. Lol. I keep hearing about “ The chain” The lights are a good example. Like the semi conductor chips. One broken link in the chain, throws everything out of whack. Seems to be plenty Trucks working. I’m wondering how it’s all going to shake out. Hard to say. So many pieces to “ The Chain”

 

How many companies supply parts to all the different manufacturers? How many companies that supply parts to those manufacturers actually produce their own products and how many companies outsource production to a factory overseas? How much production was lost when a factory overseas shuts down for a month or two if that one factory produces things for a handful of different companies that supply parts to all the different manufacturers? How much productivity was lost simply due to the 6ft distancing requirements once they were allowed to open back up?

It’s hard to recover once you get that far behind.

 

Outsourcing is evidently bad for strategic economical and defense objectives of a state. Unfortunately, in the free trade World, the objectives are not necessarily coherent with those of businesses.
Before globalization it was not an issue. Now it is. How do you convince businesses to bring back domestic output without changing their reliance on cheap labor they find overseas? Especially now, when all the infrastructure was disassembled and expertise long forgotten.
Power have only those states which produce output.
Those who think that they 'own' means of production on a land governed by a foreign law are delusional. Simply, a state without output is an eunuch of a state. The production must be brought back here!

 

People wouldn’t like what things cost if everything was brought back here.

 

I think one very large piece of the puzzle that folks are missing is raw materials. We are almost 100% dependent on foreign entities for that because of the EPA. Now with the push to electric its going to be way worse. This administration has already said outright that they have no intention of the US mining Lithium or anything else for that matter. Plus the war on coal. Hard to make steel without coal!

 

Yeah, but hell.....at this point....how much more could it cost? And atleast you would be able to get it. The basis of our consumer economy is an abundance of cheap goods. It breaks....throw it away and buy another.

 

Who put all those restrictions in place? Who forced companies to shut down? Who lied about the virus? Who misrepresented all the statistics?

 

It's not the price of the goods themselves. It's the nearly worthless value of the dollar. All these cheap goods are necessary to hide how much Americans are being stolen from via inflation.

 

Poeple don't like anything. Let's ask them if they like to see their country might in the process of disintegration? At some point, the general sentiment should give way to what is unbiasedly better. This current system of free market and democracy to a large degree became rigged to benefit the corporate world and there isn't any sensible way out of it other than some general reform and sacrifice.