The Hidden Truth of the Suez Crisis

The 2021 Suez Canal blockage cost the global economy nine billion dollars per day.

But here's what your economics textbook won't tell you about what really happened next.

When that massive container ship got stuck, everyone focused on the immediate chaos.

Hundreds of ships waiting, goods delayed, supply chains frozen. But the real

economic damage came from something nobody saw coming. See, companies panicked.

They started ordering double and triple the inventory they actually needed. This created artificial

demand that sent inflation skyrocketing. In ways that had nothing to do with actual

scarcity. Your A-level syllabus calls this demand-pull inflation, but it was