For an alternate take, see https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/the-real-culprit-in-our-supply-chain-crisis/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/the-real-c

For an alternate take, see https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/the-real-culprit-in-our-supply-chain-crisis/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/the-real-culprit-in-o... ... These posts raise some interesting points I hadn't thought about (I don't see any problem with Next-in accounting). But it seems that lack of inventory isn't the only problem, throughput at ports is also an issue, and the ports themselves are limited at what changes they can make to fix these issues, partly due to profits (no one will want to operate a huge port that's profitable 5% of the time), but also partly due to limits put on ports and shipping by the government.