On: Soaring lumber prices add to the cost of a new home

[vkou]

Marginally profitable mills shut down/go bankrupt when tariffs are introduced, and unlike AWS instances cannot be spun up on demand.

[kokanator → vkou]

Does it feel like we have squeezed a critical part of our infrastructure here allowing it to go bankrupt? This could have lasting affects for decades.

[cma → kokanator]

They don't necessarily melt down the machines and recast them as ingots in a bankruptcy.

[vkou → kokanator]

Canadian lumber has always been a political football for American politicians to kick around whenever they needed to score some points, so we're used to this sort of thing.

Like any resource extraction industry, it goes boom, it goes bust, it recovers.