http://fourwinds10.com 2026-04-05T08:12:03+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1647381887 3-`5-22 Vessel owned by same company that blocked the Suez Canal last year A fully loaded cargo ship is still stuck in the Chesapeake Bay. “On Sunday March 13, at approximately 9 p.m., we received a call from the vessel, the Ever Forward, stating that they had run aground,” Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist Petty Officer 3rd Class Breanna Centeno, told The Epoch Times. “We do not know the reasoning as to how it happened, however once the vessel is refloated, we are going to do an investigation to figure out possible causes. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1636395041 11-8-21 In the face of increasing supply-chain disruptions, President Biden told reporters on Saturday that the “backed-up” supply chain is a result of companies “clos[ing] those plants because they have COVID.” “People are worried,” Biden said, with many questioning why the “price of agricultural products” has gone up. He gave the example of going out for lunch and asking “whoever’s in the next table” to “explain the supply chain to us.” “Do you think they’d understand what we’re talking about?” he asked, suggesting that despite being “smart people,” the reasons behind the backlog of goods is “confusing and so people are understandably worried.” Biden told reporters that he has yet to see any reporter “explain supply chain very well,” and that he will attempt to “explain to the American people” the supply issues faced by the country. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1634411737 10-16-21 US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is on his second month of paid paternity leave - leaving an empty post as the Biden supply chain crisis spirals further out of control. According to Politico, "Buttigieg’s office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies." "For the first four weeks, he was mostly offline except for major agency decisions and matters that could not be delegated," said a DOT spokesperson, adding "He has been ramping up activities since then." The failed 2020 presidential candidate will "continue to take some time over the coming weeks to support his husband and take care of his new children." That said, while Pete hasn't been able to resolve the dozens of container ships currently stuck off the coast of California, he has been making the rounds on cable TV - appearing on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg and NPR - and attended a high-profile meeting with President Biden to discuss the supply chain catastrophe. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1634315988 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1597848521 8-19-20 The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop U.S. protectionism and its trade disputes with the rest of the world, especially with China and the European Union. In actual fact, it deepened the conflict. This behaviour anticipates very complicated post-pandemic international trade, which can exacerbate the protectionist tendencies of developed economies and, therefore, affect the global recovery. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1585325094 3-25-20 Even before the coronavirus pandemic ground the US economy to a halt, the US brick and mortar retail sector was facing an apocalypse of epic proportions with dozens of retailers filing for bankruptcy in recent years as Amazon stole everyone's market share...   irst Day by Reorg @ReorgFirstDay Since June 2015, retail chains have accumulated more than $45 billion in aggregate chapter 11 liabilities in connection with over 80 bankruptcy filings: .. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1585072628 3-23-20 The Greater Kansas City area has come under a 30 day "shelter in place" order, becoming effective 3-24.  That would include the area where my hub is located in Kansas.  We drivers were just informed by our boss that we have been deemed essential since we haul both medical supplies (gloves, masks, TP, cleaning supplies, etc.) and construction supplies necessary for maintaining or repairing the infrastructure and/or temporary medical facilities.  Sometime this coming week all warehouse workers and drivers will be given papers granting them permission to travel through and work in the counties under this order. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1582732654 2-25-20 In yet another devastating piece of news for the financial markets and global supply chains, consumer products giant Proctor & Gamble has warned that the company’s 17,600 products used 9,000 materials that come from 387 factories / suppliers across China, and that all of them may be disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. “Each of these suppliers faces their own challenges in resuming operations,” said CFO Jon Moeller during a speech at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, as reported by CIPS.org. Chinese demand for both copper and petroleum fuels has plummeted over the last 30 days, indicating a sharp plunge in factory production. CIPS. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1582652005 2-24-20 A very concerning new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today noting the unprecedented degradation of Russian-American ties due to anti-Russian statements made by the participants of the US election campaign, says there is no choice left but for Russia to suspend the work of its trade mission in the United States—a trade mission suspension coming at the same time Russia is projected to retain the crown as the world’s top wheat exporter for third year in a row as US wheat harvest numbers continue to fall—and for this year, also, has experts warning that the weather factor, including a snowless, warm winter, is increasingly becoming a “black swan” event for Russian farmers—which refers to a rare and unpredictable occurrence that has severe consequences for financial markets—is now confronting President Donald Trump, too, as he faces a “black swan” threat to the economy and reelection his leading allies acknowledge could present an existential political threat—all being caused by the coronavirus threat that’s now crashed the entire Chinese economy to its lowest level on record—and to make this grave situation even worse, now sees China being attacked by the apocalyptic locust plague sweeping the globe—thus creating a “Global Economic Pandemic” neither Russia or the US can collaborate on mitigating because of trade tie cutoffs—which Trump has now responded to by warning his citizens that if the Democrats win the White House, “there will be a stock market crash like you have never seen before”.  [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]     According to this report, for the past two years the main focus of the now ended Russian-US trade mission discussions centered on grain production—specifically because less-expensive Russian wheat is pushing US and European grain out of import-dependent countries in the Mideast and North Africa as agriculture exports have overtaken the arms industry as Russia’s number two earner—and while Russia harvested an area of wheat almost twice as large as the US in the year ended in June-2018, American farmers, seeing little opportunity to profit, planted the smallest area of wheat since records began a century ago seeing their production shrink by 25% —that, in turn, has caused the biggest wave of farm closures in the US since the 1980’s. Colliding head-on with this historic drop in US wheat production this year, however, this report explains, are the twin black swan events of the coronavirus and locust plague apocalypses’ sweeping the globe—either one of which by itself provides enough uncertainty to destabilize global financial markets—but when combined, throws uncertainty out the window and replaces it with cataclysmic assuredness—with this first being evidenced in the crash of oil prices as Chinese (that consumes 13 of every 100 barrels of oil that the world produces) imports have plunged 20%--the already a wreck global natural gas market whose prices have plunged to historic lows and are down nearly 15% since the start of 2020—as well as the global lithium battery and energy storage markets whose world’s largest producer China is collapsing this market by 10% —all of which has now caused the “canary in the coal mine for the economic world” to ring out in alarm as global shipping grinds to a halt on seas the world over.     As to whom the main beneficiaries are of these black swan events circling the world like vultures, this report concludes, are the enemies of President Trump—most particularly his nation’s socialist Democrat Party and the communist Chinese—both of whom Trump has relentlessly targeted as part of his Make America Great masterplan to return the United States to its former status as the preeminent global economic superpower—and whom one would logically think would never conspire with each other to unleash a deadly disease on the world to collapse the global economy in an effort to overthrow Trump—logical thinking, however, just stunningly upended a few hours ago by US Department of Homeland Security Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli when he told Fox News medical correspondent Dr. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1582648682 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1516906022 Under the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing aims to connect western China to the eastern Mediterranean By Pepe Escobars January 23/24, 2018 "Information Clearing House" -  China’s “Go West” strategy was brought into sharp focus at a forum in Shanghai last weekend. Billed as the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards Greater Cooperation between China and the Middle East, it highlighted key aspects of Beijing’s wider plan. The New Silk Roads, or the Belt and Road Initiative, involve six key economic corridors, connecting Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. One, in particular, extends through the Middle East to North Africa. This is where the Belt and Road meets MENA or the Middle East and North Africa. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1495470165 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1494951365 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1491497660 4-4-17 The U.S. trade deficit declined sharply in February as imports from China fell by a record amount and American exports rose for a third straight month. The deficit fell to $43.6 billion in February, 9. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/business/commerce/news.php?q=1485448057