Retail sales jumped unexpectedly in august as the delta variant caused americans to once again change where they spend their money. While we're buying more stuff, all the plants that are producing raw materials sending there's these huge log jams in shipping. And so you have both a huge increase in demand coupled with more complications making things.
No, President Biden didn’t cause the tampon shortage — or any of the recent shortages. But that won’t stop him from taking the blame.
This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez and Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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