This might explain the serial and accelerating crises of the past two years.

As soon as one crisis hits another is in the wings.  And they are across the board from inflation to national logistics problems to supply chains to CDC/FDA crises of expertise to dramatic increases in energy costs to foreign wars to housing crises to stock market collapses to spiraling interest rates to anticipated recessions to uncontrolled mass migration to exploding violent crime rates to catastrophic suicide and drug overdose rates.  The list goes on and on.  It is one thing to fail in a particular area.  Quite another to fail in all areas.  

From Not Ready for Prime Time Players: Majority of Biden Appointees have Zero Years of Business Experience by Stephen Moore and Jon Decker.

Based on our survey of the top 68 officials in the Biden administration, starting with the president himself, and including cabinet members, regulatory officials, and White House advisers, this study finds:

• 62% of Biden appointees who deal with economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance have virtually no business experience.

• Only one in eight has extensive business experience.

• Average business experience of Biden appointees is only 2.4 years.

• Median years of business experience is zero.

• The vast majority of the Biden economic/commerce team members are professional politicians, lawyers, community organizers, lobbyists, or government employees.

Granted, private sector experience is not the be-all-and-end-all.  But it is pretty important to have it somewhere in the mix, if not for all individuals, at least for the cabinet and agencies as a portfolio.  The numbers always surprise me by how low they are, but Biden's numbers are dramatically lower than anything I have seen for the past five administrations.  I think it was probably Obama's administration that had the next lowest experience levels and they were still markedly higher than this.  

Time and again I see Cabinet secretaries and Agency heads doing press conferences and you can see they don't know what they are talking about.  And you think, well, they may just not be a good presenter.  This study backs up the knee-jerk response.  No, they just don't know what they are talking about.  

In particular, it has occurred to me seeing the Secretaries of Treasury, Transportation, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Energy talking; how did they get this position?  It is almost as if the Republicans were allowed to make the selections of who would embarrass the Administration the most.