There’s No ‘Supply-Chain Shortage,’ Or Inflation. There’s Just Central Planning

By News on the Net -- Forbes —— Bio and Archives November 5, 2021

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It’s great that so many have copies of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, but very unfortunate that so few have read it. The alleged “supply chain” problems we’re enduring right now were explained by Smith in the book’s opening pages. Smith wrote about a pin factory, and the then remarkable truth that one man in the factory working alone could maybe – maybe – produce one pin each day. But several men working together could produce tens of thousands.-- More...