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From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news.

I'm Noah Feldman. One of the important stories that's come out of COVID is the disruption of the global supply chain.

If you've recently tried to buy a new car or some furniture, you know all about this problem.

The system of making and distributing goods around the world is not working quite the way we're

accustomed to it working. And we're not exactly clear on how to fix it. For today's show,

we wanted to speak to someone who could explain what's going on to us and deepen our

understanding and knowledge of this headline topic,

supply chain disruption. I'm very glad to say that our fantastic team here at Deep Background

found someone who could do exactly that. Hannah Kane is the founder and CEO of Aelam,

a global supply chain company based in California.

She has decades of experience in supply chain management,

and I'm going to talk to her about what's causing supply chain slowdowns,

what we should think of the supply chain as actually being,

the role that government has to play in this,

and how we make our way out of it over time.

Hannah, thank you so much for joining me. So when we entered this COVID world, many people who were consumers spent exactly zero time ever thinking

about the words supply chain. I'm sure if one ran any kind of a company that made a product,

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