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Discover LudwigThe phrase "artificial shortage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a lack of supply is created intentionally or through manipulation, rather than occurring naturally.
Example: "The company created an artificial shortage of the product to drive up prices and increase demand."
Alternatives: "manufactured scarcity" or "created deficit".
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Beijing's solution: Create an artificial shortage of credit.
They bought up silver and took it off the market, thereby creating an artificial shortage.
trick in the book, the underwriters only issued 7.84 million shares, thereby creating an artificial shortage.
"Artificial Shortage in Agricultural Supply Chains". Levi, Retsef, Somya Singhvi, and Y . Karen Zheng Working Paper.
The commission alleged that PPL manipulated prices by withholding electricity, creating an artificial shortage and driving up prices.
The duration and end of this artificial shortage coincided perfectly with Asia's boom years and with its bust.
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Profiteers thrive on panic buying and artificial shortages.
But reckless deregulation, market manipulation and artificial shortages did not figure there as in California.
Worse, outdated securities regulations created artificial shortages of shares in some companies and held trading volumes down.
In California, deregulation led to one of history's great policy disasters: energy companies drove up prices by creating artificial shortages.
Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California, contends that high-tech companies create artificial shortages by refusing to hire experienced programmers.
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