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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Stephanomics, the podcast that is

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Speaker 1: once again bring the global economy to you with help

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Speaker 1: from a global team of reporters, economists and experts, and

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Speaker 1: me Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: think you have to be an economist who have noticed

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Speaker 1: that large parts of the economy are out of sync.

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Speaker 1: On the one hand, people are going back to offices again,

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Speaker 1: at least in Europe and the US. We're going to

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Speaker 1: crowded parties again, or the movies. We stopped living eight

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Speaker 1: of our lives online at least for over sixteen But

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Speaker 1: when you go to that restaurant, you might find it's

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Speaker 1: open shorter hours, there's a smaller menu, or you're told

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Speaker 1: that machine part you need is going to take six months.

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Speaker 1: Here in Britain, we're even seeing empty shelves for some

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Speaker 1: goods in the supermarkets. And as I record this, I

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Speaker 1: don't actually know where I'm going to get my next

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Speaker 1: tank of fuel. Our local station in West London hasn't

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Speaker 1: had any for a week. In short demand has come

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Speaker 1: roaring back, but supply has not. What that means for

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Speaker 1: the shape of the global recovery and inflation will probably

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Speaker 1: be talking about a lot in the weeks to come.

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Speaker 1: But first I wanted to get up close and personal

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Speaker 1: with this great supply chain snarl up, get a sense

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Speaker 1: of what it looks like feels like in different parts

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Speaker 1: Lizzie Burden in London with angry drivers lining up for

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Speaker 1: about staff shortages with restaurant our and TV star Willie Dagel,

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Speaker 1: and an expert take from a trade economist Chanela remya jam.

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Speaker 1: But to kick things off, here's Bloomberg senior reporter and

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Speaker 1: a current in Hong Kong. What was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a temporary shortage of goods has morphed into something much bigger,

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Speaker 1: with warnings that supply chain disruption will now last well

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Speaker 1: Across from me are stacks of containers that will bring

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Speaker 1: For my first visit, I went to meet Daniel Yip,

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Speaker 1: like coffee machines, coffee grinders and toasters from major markets

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Speaker 1: in Europe as actually Germany. Shortages of integrated circuits or

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Speaker 1: Even if he can get the integrated circuits and other components,

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Speaker 1: The single biggest problem that we are facing this year

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Speaker 1: And then because the supply of the i C is

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for joining us on stephonomics. But we

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Speaker 1: welcome to Stephanois. We've we've had a taste of what's

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Speaker 1: That is bad news for many of us. Shanella Rod

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