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U.S. Sees Soaring Demand And Supply Shortages

We’re buying more stuff, which is creating other complications such as bottlenecks in supply chains and the highest inflation in more than a dozen years.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley talks with NPR chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley, who has been looking at this.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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