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The Story Behind Today's Extraordinary Lumber Prices - A Perfect Storm of Events
What's Working with Cam Marston
English - August 30, 2021 12:30 - 55 minutes - 38.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsCareers Business Entrepreneurship business cammarston workforce workplace Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Why are lumber prices at an all time high? Is it Covid? Labor shortages? Tariffs? It's all of the above plus many more things including the freeze in Texas last year that froze chemical plants, too few long-haul truckers, bugs in Canada, Chinese goods through Vietnam. The list is overwhelming. It's a perfect storm of random events and there appears to be no end in sight. Bert Scarbrough of Premier Lumber and homebuilder Brian Robertson give me the details.