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Increased Consumer Spending Among Scarcity
Armstrong Economics Blog/Behavioral Economics Re-Posted Dec 2, 2021 by Martin Armstrong
The global supply chain shortage amid rising inflation is abundantly prominent. The supply shortage could actually cause people to spend more despite rising prices. Adobe Analytics is already predicting a 10% increase in US online shopping purchases over the next month, totaling $207 billion. An Indiana Institute study explains “pandemic, panicked overbuying” amid shortages.
We all recall the toilet paper and water shortages at the beginning of the pandemic. Stores simply did not have these items in stock, and when they became available, people purchased more than they could possibly consume. Researchers found that scarcity triggered a desire to compensate for shortages by seeking abundance. The average consumer likely would not purchase $300 worth of toilet paper in one trip to the store, but under the pretense of scarcity, overspending impacts price judgments.
Consumers categorize purchases differently amid shortages as well. Typically, people associate a higher price tag with higher quality. “People who face scarcity are less likely to view less vs. more expensive options as belonging to different categories, and thus are open to differences at either or both ends of the price continuum,” co-author Ashok Lalwani stated.
Researchers at John Molson School of Business found two main methods consumers use to compensate for a lack of abundance: the scarcity-reduction route and the control-restoration route. The scarcity-reduction route will cause people to panic buy more than they need to reduce the prospect of running out. Coincidentally, this exacerbates the problem of shortages as people hoard items and they become unavailable to those who need them. The other method, the control-restoration route, occurs when people fear they cannot eliminate scarcity through efforts or spending (i.e., distractions or avoidance).
However, the typical consumer is compelled toward competitive shopping behavior amid shortages. The researchers at the John Molson School of Business found that seeing images of empty shelves could trigger an increased consumption response. In fact, many are prone to accidental stockpiling where they add a few additional items to their cart that ends up totaling to more money and resources than they need.
Hopefully, we do not see the same level of panic buying that we did during the beginning stages of the pandemic. However, holiday shoppers are quick to snatch up deals and pile up on items in fear that they may not be available tomorrow.
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Inside the Actors Studio Presents Alec Baldwin’s Theatrical Debut: “I Didn’t Pull The Trigger”
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 172 Comments
The dramatic and cinematic promotional effort is so over the top as George Stephanopoulos plays the role of James Lipton interviewing Alec Baldwin in the grand performance of “I didn’t pull the trigger, no, no, no… never” the revolver just went off all by itself. WATCH:
The cinematic effort by ABC here is, excuse the pun, likely to backfire. It’s just perverse, twisted and creepy, considering that someone died.
Whoever gave Baldwin the advice to do this was just playing to his own vanity. The one thing regular Americans can detect better than all other nations of people is fake efforts at authenticity. That reality has been the Achilles heel of professional con-artists and leftists for decades; and thankfully, most people have retained that instinct.
Nigel Farage Extensive Interview With President Donald Trump
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 93 Comments
GBNews is using the opportunity of an interview with President Donald Trump to market their relatively new media franchise. Perhaps that is to be expected, but the amount of self-promotion from the network around this interview is a little weird. That said, Nigel Farage and GBNews were given an extended interview with President Donald Trump from Mar-a-Lago for broadcast in the U.K. The video from GBN is below.
The video is prompted to 09:00 to eliminate nine minutes of lead-in promotion. Farage begins the GBN narrative by saying President Trump has been invisible to the international audience since he left office.
The interview is broken down into two parts. The first part discusses the 2020 election, the second part covers current events. During each segment GBN injects MAGA and anti-MAGA voices into the discussion, as Farage says “to give balance” to the interview. President Trump notes it is important to look back to the problems of 2020 in order to look forward to what is needed for the MAGA movement in the next election. WATCH:
Joe Biden Compares The Shortage of Pet Food, Chemical and Raw Material Commodities to the Scarcity of Cabbage Patch Dolls
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 198 Comments
At some point you have to wonder if the Obama team behind the scenes is intentionally putting words in Biden’s teleprompter because they want him to be mocked in public.
Earlier today Joe Biden compared the shortage of essential products, pet foods, raw materials, petroleum products and chemicals in the U.S. (due to his self-inflicted energy policy) to the shortage of Cabbage Patch dolls in the 1980’s. Seriously, you really cannot make this stuff up. WATCH:
I would hazard a guess the speechwriters debated using Tickle Me Elmo as an example, and then decided it was a just a smidge too far.
Good grief, this is enough to really make you wonder…. How long?
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MUST WATCH – Dr. Anthony Fauci Busted, Cannot Explain Why The U.S. Banned Travel From African Countries With Zero Cases of Omicron Variant
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 263 Comments
Sometimes the truth is hard to spot. It’s like that little out of place thing peeking out from under the boulder of lies atop it. Everyone focuses on the boulder, because it was purposefully placed there to get attention. However, every once in a while someone -usually a new voice in the crowd- notices that little part they didn’t quite cover up well enough, and that is when you find out the truth.
Anthony Fauci appeared today at the White House briefing room to promote the Omicron fear narrative. When building narratives, the timing of things is important. Fauci was announcing the first case of the Omicron variant in California, that’s the boulder. However, one of the usually silent and compliant journalists from the African news bureau had this pesky question (video at 16:50 prompted):
QUESTION: “Dr. Fauci, with all due respect, there’s zero case of COVID variant, of Omicron case, in Zimbabwe, in Namibia, in Lesotho, in Mozambique, what justifies imposing a travel ban on countries that have zero cases of the Omicron variant?”
FAUCI: “um,… er,… um,… You know, that’s a very good question, an important question, and, and we did struggle with that”….
… AND he never answered the question, because it wasn’t supposed to be asked. No one was supposed to notice that little irreconcilable factoid highlighting how the Omicron fear boulder is a purposeful fraud. They built this fear narrative called “Omicron” out of nothing, for a specific purpose.
The reporter wanted to push the issue, but the White House quickly interceded. Funny that.
Frustrated That Omicron Fear Is Not Permeating American Psyche, White House Planning More COVID Mandates
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 456 Comments
There has been a lot of chatter behind a Washington Post report about the White House planning to introduce new COVID travel and quarantine restrictions tomorrow (Thursday). However, tuning out the noise – remember which agency of the Fourth Branch uses the Washington Post and things make sense.
The problem for the White House is the public reaction to the new COVID variant Omicron did not meet their expectations.
The White House needs more concern, more fear, more panic to enhance their larger objective {Go Deep}. The Biden team really need Omicron fear to permeate the American psyche, in order to achieve the Build Back Better agenda. They desperately need it.
If people just shake it off and go about living their lives, the White House will be facing an electorate angry about inflation; that’s a problem.
The Washington Post report is framed around new international travel restrictions, increased COVID testing, and quarantine mandates as an outcome of the Omicron variant arrival. However, given the nature of the 48 hour advanced notice provided to The WaPo, it’s likely the announcement tomorrow will contain the change that all vaccine advocates have been demanding, mandatory vaccination prior to any domestic airline travel. Forcing domestic airline travelers to prove their vaccinated status has been a goal of the vaccine media for several months.
The worker vaccine mandate was unconstitutional federal overreach; the Biden administration knew that in advance and did it anyway because the vaccine isn’t really the end goal, it’s just a tool. An airline traveler vaccine mandate would be similar federal overreach, and also likely to lose in court; however, that is not going to stop them from announcing one for the same reason they announced the worker vaccine mandate.
WASHINGTON – […] As part of an enhanced winter covid strategy Biden is expected to announce Thursday, U.S. officials would require everyone entering the country to be tested one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure. Administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival.
In addition, they are debating a controversial proposal to require all travelers, including U.S. citizens, to self-quarantine for seven days, even if their test results are negative. Those who flout the requirements might be subject to fines and penalties, the first time such penalties would be linked to testing and quarantine measures for travelers in the United States. (read more)
As long as the White House needs to exploit the politics and control of Omicron; and as long as the American people refuse to be controlled by the exploitation of Omicron, this mandate dynamic will continue. In essence, the Biden government is demanding that we behave more fearfully and pay attention to the distractions they are presenting in front of us.
Our government needs your compliance comrade citizen in order to retain their objective.
All of Biden energy policy, and all of Biden spending around the Build Back Better agenda, is designed to take us from where we are now into some distant place where fossil fuels are not the energy mechanism; that’s the Green New Deal component of this. However, there is no energy policy position for their transition – they stopped all current energy development around oil and coal.
This is not a flaw in their program for fundamental change, it is a feature.
Biden halted pipelines, cancelled oil and gas leases, blocked expanded refinery capacity and regulated the entire U.S. oil industry into a place of diminished capacity. That is why energy prices have, as Obama promised, “necessarily skyrocketed.” Depending on how cold it is this winter, you can expect natural gas and home heating oil to double in the next few months.
The near horizon looks pretty clear. Gasoline will keep rising fast and will cost $6 to $7/gal before next spring. There is no way under current Joe Biden policy to avoid this, unless he was to completely abandon his energy policy; that’s not likely. The climate change ideologues, academics and far-left communists behind the Biden policy are not likely to see the catastrophic economic damage as a bad thing. Instead, they will likely say it’s the new normal.
With that level of supply side economic chaos seemingly unavoidable, the only way for Biden to try and mitigate political damage is an attempt to halt the demand side.
That’s why the administration needs Omicron to change our behavior.
COVID-19 is a sword to destroy & fundamentally change the U.S. and global economy. COVID-19 is also a shield to protect the politicians as they destroy and fundamentally change the U.S. and global economy.
COVID-19 is a tool for Build Back Better.
Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
Is Big Pharma Punishing South Africa?
Armstrong Economics Blog/Africa Re-Posted Dec 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong
South Africa denied Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson from delivering additional vaccines. A day later, on November 25, the omicron variant was detected in the country. Before the new variant was detected, South Africa claimed it had vaccinated 35% of the population, but their stockpile was building due to vaccine hesitancy. However, the African Union had planned to buy 220 million doses from Johnson & Johnson through Aspen Pharmacare. South Africa had also promised to purchase large quantities from Pfizer. A representative from Pfizer said, “We remain adaptable to individual country’s vaccine requirements whilst continuing to meet our quarterly commitments as per the South Africa supply agreement.”
Travel bans were immediately placed on South Africa and surrounding countries with lower vaccination rates. The variant has since been detected in Belgium, Israel, Germany, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. However, none of those nations faced a travel ban. The South African government released a statement saying that they are being “punished”:
“This latest round of travel bans is akin to punishing South Africa for its advanced genomic sequencing and the ability to detect new variants quicker. Excellent science should be applauded and not punished. The global community needs collaboration and partnerships in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Even the World Health Organization has warned world leaders not to impose immediate travel restrictions. The South African government is urging nations to reconsider the travel ban, but the number of nations to implement a ban multiplied after omicron was announced. If the ban were solely due to health concerns, countries would also ban travel from other places where the variant is present. South Africa is potentially being punished for disobeying the larger agenda.
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