Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34633327-20180125034140/@comment-26018514-20180213055213

Sentry 616 wrote: ... They never said anything about Yale's deposits running dry, just that Roman was stealing so friggin' much that prices were skyrocketing, and fear could do most of the heavy lifting there. ...

The bigger problem would be the loss of their preexisting stockpiles, which would have already been mined and refined, their infrastructure, for manufacturing materiel, and their troops.

You seem to be getting a few things that come from nowhere in the show or WOR.

"Yale", lol. Vale fell while their dust was stolen and used to blast a hole in its defenses, the Atlas shut its borders(the place dust is refined), The SDC controls the market, so when Atlas closed they were likely never restocked. There is a reason that pilot of the cargo ship was feeling rich(or that he would be) after selling his stock

as you said, all the dust Mined and Refined, and Atlas is the main producer, if they went down, Vacuo would likely fall to Anarchy(its natural state), and Mistral's resources would be hoarded by the government and black market hierarchy, refined dust and stockpiles are bound to be low atm, and every industry relies on it to keep the lights on, fuel their cars, etc. they would run out quick