Whenever the popular media begins paying significant, or even obsessive, attention to an economic or business issue, you can bet it is a lagging, rather than leading, indicator of a critical problem ...

One of the curses of the Great Supply Chain Disruption of 2020 was the phenomenon known as “the bullwhip effect.” It describes a series of events by which relatively small issues at the beginning of a ...

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. While the ...