are shortages next

Who'd of thought deflation could lead to essential commodity shortages?

If you're in the game of commodity production and rely on third parties for finance (ie most of them/us), it is getting impossible to obtain funding. That's hardly likely to translate into capacity to produce. Not a problem for things like copper and lead but for energy and food this is much more worrying. This scenario is playing out worldover and it is only going to be a matter of time before shortages start sppearing in the commodities of need IMO.