A grim new World Bank warning projects global commodity prices to skyrocket twenty-three percent due to escalating Middle East conflicts. Meanwhile, in Baja California Sur, the most pressing supply chain crisis is whether the local Mini-Super has run out of Pacifico beer. Expat real estate agents assured clients that supply shocks cannot touch them as long as the dirt road to San Ignacio stays washed out. Economists wept, but the surfers in Pescadero were too busy complaining about the offshore wind to notice.