OSB is 30 fucking dollars
OSB is 30 fucking dollars
Can you say "double digit inflation".
Can you say "double digit inflation".
Yeah 2 x 6 x 16' are running me 30 dollars a piece. 5/8" t111 pressure treated $46 a sheet. Been framing a workshop out starting to get expensive.
Yeah 2 x 6 x 16' are running me 30 dollars a piece. 5/8" t111 pressure treated $46 a sheet. Been framing a workshop out starting to get expensive.
while it could be inflation (and that doesn't help) it could also be increased demand from all the teachers and government workers doing home improvements for the last year.
while it could be inflation (and that doesn't help) it could also be increased demand from all the teachers and government workers doing home improvements for the last year.
Increased demand and faux COVID scarcity.
Increased demand and faux COVID scarcity.
Any time the Fed pumps huge amounts of cash into the system, inflation happens... the only question is, how high will it go.
Any time the Fed pumps huge amounts of cash into the system, inflation happens... the only question is, how high will it go.
The fed can pump money in and as long as the money makes its way to people who are collecting money (not buying lumber) then the inflation will not change prices. If the rich people spent their money tomorrow we would see everything 10x in price; as long as they don't spend it they can do things slowly, like buy up all of the farmland while promoting the destruction of the economy. There are many people who could have bought up the farmland, but one is really going at it.
The fed can pump money in and as long as the money makes its way to people who are collecting money (not buying lumber) then the inflation will not change prices. If the rich people spent their money tomorrow we would see everything 10x in price; as long as they don't spend it they can do things slowly, like buy up all of the farmland while promoting the destruction of the economy. There are many people who could have bought up the farmland, but one is really going at it.
Mills are posting beyond record profits and still being very unwilling to run additional shifts to meet demand. They're riding the initial COVID uncertainty from last spring and minor shutdowns because of "positive cases" as long as they possibly can to justify the record prices.
Lumber wholesalers have had their hands tied into paying those prices for a while to keep their clients serviced but something's going to have to give.
A very small collection of extremely profitable mills have held all the cards in the timber industry for a long time.
Mills are posting beyond record profits and still being very unwilling to run additional shifts to meet demand. They're riding the initial COVID uncertainty from last spring and minor shutdowns because of "positive cases" as long as they possibly can to justify the record prices.
Lumber wholesalers have had their hands tied into paying those prices for a while to keep their clients serviced but something's going to have to give.
A very small collection of extremely profitable mills have held all the cards in the timber industry for a long time.
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