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Shortage of materials while the order books are all full... That's what it turns into if you afford yourself a globalized economy with everything of lower complexity degree production outsourced to just a few places in the world and some link in the chain suddenly becomes absent for whatever reason - or some selected player(s) suddenly buy(s) up all the few supply that exists at all.