Thats not inflation. Thats price gouging. Lumber is available. There is no shortage.
Coordinated price gouging across the entire market? Not a chance. It's inflation and it is being caused by all the free money on Wall Street.
How do you explain lumber mills hitting maximum storage capacities in their yards then?
How do you explain the price of raw materials not rising proportionally with the cost of lumber?
How do you explain the price of steel going up but not the price per ton for scrap steel?
You are correct with your posits. Now take it a step further to how markets work. Plenty of supply so who drives the price on a market? Buyers (doesn't have to be real ones who take delivery). How do you create higher prices? More money driving the prices up (Wall Street and the money printers working in tandem). Same principle on how the market went up during Obama's great recession. Market manipulation. See the importance of controlling money supply?
Market fuckery. Price gouging to destroy economy while profiteering.
How do you explain lumber mills hitting maximum storage capacities in their yards then?
The same transport crisis mentioned in the OP.
It's not just lumber, lockdowns are also strangling trade routes all over europe. The worst hit are heavy bulky goods.
Already confirmed. Seas of lumber ready for delivery to stores. It's simply trickled and they pretend there is a supply issue.
Welcome to the real world where evil people do evil things.
Spot on. Evil runs the world and the once good people sell their souls for money.
In order for that to be true, there'd have to be a conspiracy among all of the sawmills. That doesn't seem to me to be the kind of business where you could get that kind of centralisation. More likely it's transport problems caused by the lockdowns.
Where is it available? Not in hardware stores.
Reread the thread. Already answered.
Reread the answer, then you'll understand the problem.
"Plenty" of a resource in the wrong place is no use. There's plenty of freshwater in Norway, this won't stop water prices spiking in Greece if there's a drought.
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