Debt crisis. We will see a few more soon except this time in first world countries. Bond market is screaming. And all at the same time opportunist China will position itself to take control of strategic interests like ports and agricultural land en masse. It’s going to be a somber lesson for a highly leveraged securitized debtor nations.
“Shortage” is such a loaded word to use in all these contexts these days. What they really mean is - paper is expensive and people are reading the news digitally anyways, so it not worth it to them to spend the money.