The sad point is, these increases and shortages are ALL ARTIFICIALLY CREATED. The United States is being leveraged and systematically being destroyed from within! The damn psychopaths have organized, meet and conspired together to do this deed at all strategic levels. Unfortunately, organized psychopaths rule the world, we would have a paradise world without them. You know what the remedy is instinctively but fail to take that extra step to enact. Psychopaths are victorious due to your ignorance, procrastination, cowardice, resolve and apathy.