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Peppa pig soft toys on display at Hamleys toy store on Regent Street in London, U.K., on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. For the U.K., the supply crunch is more acute because it’s more dependent on trade than many other advanced economies and because Brexit exacerbated a trucker shortage.Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

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By Lucas Shaw

August 21, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

Good afternoon from Los Angeles. As I mentioned last week, we are upgrading the look and feel of this newsletter, which you can see with the new header this week. I am also going to toy around with a few formatting tweaks.

The subject, tone and general structure of this newsletter remain unchanged. Let me know what you think (or what I should write about).