- Higher prices have flattered headline numbers while obscuring declining volumes of sales
- When combined with the shift to ‘just in case’, the result is a historic level of inventories
- Unless new orders accelerate, the risk is that we are heading into an inventory cycle
- Thereby raising the risk of a return to boom/bust economics and increased volatility
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