What podcasts say about Ed Conway
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What Ed Conway has said on podcasts
22 statements · 5 positive · 12 negative · 5 neutral
Understanding of global supply chains remains relatively primitive.
“our understanding of how they actually function is relatively primitive”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 4:50
One Birmingham factory produces at least 55% of a car component’s global supply.
“55 or more percent of the global supply of this part”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 6:35
Global production has become highly concentrated in single locations.
“we have concentrated so much production for something in a single place”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 6:46
Scottish fish for fish fingers is often processed in China before returning to the UK.
“a lot of the time, that fish having been gutted in the boat that catches it, it gets flash frozen, sent to China to be processed 15,000 miles, and then sent back to here”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 7:23
Most rear-view-mirror components are made in one factory.
“most of them are made in a single factory”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 10:24
The tsunami disrupted a single location supplying most actuator components worldwide.
“the majority of the world's supply comes from a single place, and that single place has just gone down”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 11:01
Globalisation has concentrated production rather than dispersing it.
“globalisation hasn't dispersed. It has concentrated.”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 13:05
Carmakers generally lack deep knowledge of their supply chains.
“no one really knows their supply chain in depth”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 14:21
Chinese manufacturers are better than Western manufacturers at making small car components.
“they are also better at making tiny little components that go inside them than we are”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 16:45
Loss of car companies would eliminate most of a country’s manufacturing sector.
“If the car companies go, basically most of your manufacturing sector is gone as well”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 17:10
Most Volvo seats are made by one of three specialized companies.
“the seats aren't made by volvo they're made by one of three companies for the most part”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 17:55
The UK has deindustrialised faster than any other country and continues doing so.
“the UK is at the vanguard, you know, for better or for worse of this, because we have de-industrialised faster than anyone else and continue to”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 23:50
The Devon tungsten mine is the world’s second-largest tungsten resource.
“it's the second biggest resource of tungsten in the world”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 26:27
Domestic tungsten production would raise tungsten and manufactured-goods costs.
“that means more expensive tungsten and it means more expensive everything that you want to produce here”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 27:00
China remains extraordinarily dominant in drone supply chains.
“China still has extraordinary dominance”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 29:24
Europe and America lack sufficient industrial scale for strategic technologies.
“What we don't necessarily have is industrial scale”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 30:08
Containerisation, larger ships, and navigation freedom underpin the modern global economy.
“the containerization, bigger ships, freedom of navigation. These are the foundation stones for the modern world”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 32:51
Non-iron cotton is treated with formaldehyde.
“Non-iron cotton is actually kind of suffused with formaldehyde”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 34:06
Wool garments contain approximately 2% polymer coating on their fibres.
“there is about 2% coating of polymer on top of those follicles of wool”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 35:00
Trade networks show resilience through intermediary middlemen.
“the resilience of this network of kind of middlemen”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 35:46
European luxury cars continue reaching Russia despite sanctions.
“they're going into Russia. It's just they're going in on the sly”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 36:34
Trade barriers may fail because global trade networks are highly resilient.
“there's some cognizance that actually that's because the system is far more resilient than you might have thought”
Open the episode · Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the WorldListen at 37:57
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