A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
There is a supply for every demand.
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.