Are We Going to Get Better at Predicting the Next Shortage?

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This is uncharted territory. These are dynamics that haven't been seen. And i think companies very quickly learned that you really can't predict, partly because there's so many things disrupting the supply chain. It seems like politically, who's ever in charge? Just as the rule of human behavior will be, who gets blamed.

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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