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Dear reader,



For decades, bad policy choices created a supply chain that is
vulnerable to shocks and unable to adjust. It enabled behemoth logistics
companies that are more invested in profiting from chaos than solving
problems. And anything-not just a pandemic, but extreme weather
events, freak accidents, or political unrest-can trigger these
disruptions all over again.

So what can we do about it? We can reverse the policies that broke the
supply chain in the first place. In our final story from our special
issue, I wrote about what it would take to re-engineer our supply chains
into a coherent national logistics system, regulating and coordinating
what has been privatized.

That means reshoring critical industries to make commerce more resilient
and sustainable. It means ending just-in-time logistics and moving to
just-in-case. It means breaking the power of large companies, and
re-regulating key hubs of the supply chain like ocean shipping,
trucking, and rail. It means repudiating the notion that the goal of all
business is to increase profits, and turning to a stakeholder model that
emphasizes workers and communities, and strengthens our prosperity and
security.

It's a heavy lift, but the Biden administration has put some of these
ideas into practice. And they've had help from businesses that are
finally rethinking the mindset that caused the supply chain meltdown.

You can read my story on supply chain solutions here.

You can read our entire special issue at
prospect.org/supplychain

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