Consumer Goods Explanation

[toadfoot]

I keep getting into a situation where the Consumer Goods quantity goes red which prevents me from building anything. It doesn't seem to matter how many consumer goods factories I have. Can someone give an explanation of how to avoid this problem or how to escape it once it happens

[HappySack]

The only country this can happen to is Germany, if you don't do the "Institute Price Controls" focus (or hire the MEFO bills advisor), and also refuse to capitulate other countries like France and Poland by 1940 to steal their gold and bring down the consumer goods.

Alternatively you could either cancel the MEFO bills (and still take Four-Year plan for the middle of the road path) or take the Economic Recovery path which is incredibly slow but you deal with the consumer goods increase immediately instead of later and it eventually becomes the strongest path.