thumb|Supply and demand, with market-clearing price shown 250px|thumbnail|right|Unemployed men queue outside a depression soup kitchen in United States during the Great Depression. 250px|thumbnail|right|A 2014 image of product shortages in Venezuela
thumb|Supply and demand, with market-clearing price shown 250px|thumbnail|right|Unemployed men queue outside a depression soup kitchen in United States during the Great Depression. 250px|thumbnail|right|A 2014 image of product shortages in Venezuela
In economics, a shortage or excess demand is a situation in which the demand for a product or service exceeds its supply in a market. It is the opposite of an excess supply (surplus).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).