From computer chips to chicken wings, the pandemic has led to shortages across the economy. One reason they’ve been so severe and so widespread is an economic phenomenon known as the “bullwhip effect.

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Since early in the Covid-19 pandemic, economists have attributed product shortages and price spikes to the bullwhip effect, which is the chaos in the supply chain that’s created by hoarding and double ...

The value of world trade has grown consistently faster than the growth rate in the world economy since 1960, and it has been much higher since the turn of the century. Since 2000, trade across country ...

“Big Short” investor Michael Burry suggested Monday that the Federal Reserve could unexpectedly reverse course on its planned series of sharp interest rate hikes due to an economic phenomenon known as ...

What do coffee, ketchup, gasoline, wood pulp and rubber all have in common? These are items that have been identified to become less available in 2021. And why is that? It’s something called “The ...