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Lumber futures in March 2020 were $303.40 per thousand board feet. That cost more than quintupled over 14 months, reaching a high of $1,607.50 in May — but is finally waning. Here's how wood got so expensive.

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US lumber company wanted Tariff on Canadian lumber to protect them from low prices, who is protecting the consumer when they reduce supply and make record profit?

Wait, let me guess, price gouging?

A Call to Protect People and Nature! T'h'a'c'k'e'r Pass, Nevada, Thread to Watch/read:

Remember when toilet paper almost went extinct and yet its price didn’t quintuple?

'A report from the NAHB in February said the lumber supply chain impact came as factories shut down almost immediately last March for safety reasons, and then as demand spiked, supply couldn't keep up.'

What about steel

Amazing the amount of resources liberal media outlets are putting into deflecting responsibility from Biden on basically anything worsening.

It’s called GREED!!!!!!

This explains why Ben Shapiro could only afford one plank of wood

When will/if we see the price drop in stores?

Pure greed.

Come on NPR do some leg work. Futures traders are the only people that make more money. Not the loggers. Same as with farmers when crops shoot up.

What about the tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber?

Trust me as a former Union Electrician...20 years construction This is Big News in the Midwest

Pure greed. There is no and was no shortage. There is more logging going on in the Pacific Northwest than ever over the last year. Log prices were dropping while lumber increased. Not one lumber yard had diminished inventory. Call it what it is NPR.

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Greed, that’s how.

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