Rising stock prices encourage spending and demand, trends that could in time produce inflationary shortages.

Production was slowed, however, by problems producing the armour plate, this being prone to distortion during the hardening process, and shortages of the BR.2 engine.

But a system of rationing through neighborhood stores has produced inevitable shortages.

A tangle of regulations has choked demand, produced shortages and kept prices low and most gas producers too small to vie for lucrative long-term industrial contracts.

In the Fed's eyes, a strong economy normally produces shortages.

For them, an economy that expands by more than 2.5 percent a year soon produces shortages of workers and goods, pushing up wages and prices.

Cuts in funds and personnel produced shortages of serviceable equipment.

It's true that Econ 101 teaches that price controls tend to produce shortages.

You know, I keep reading that space is an open resource base, but somehow, the Directorate has produced shortages.

This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military-industrial complex.