I dont know what game you are playing but in my games prices never ever go that high.

Enormous prices don't happen in campaign either, without a highly skilled Robotic player buying up Laboratories, founding at HQ Lvl 4, and locking down the rest of the AIs by brute-force price manipulation (hacker arrays won't cut it). It's not easy to do.

But imagine a MP game with no adjacency bonuses, where nobody is able to make anything properly and nobody has the foresight or understanding to grab carbon or silicon. Then naturally prices will climb. These no-adjacency games are pretty common amongst beginners.

This was not in a campagin at all this was playing online private match with my friend. We were on the same team mind you. I took a screen shot of it though it was on steam not sure how to upload it. 

Like I said even with electronics keeping steady at the 500 mark with +100% and at least 5 electronic stations you can make more money than an offworld launch I fefel like Glass,chemicals and exlectronics need to be tweaked and keep a lower price range- I have won games playing on executive against the AI doing this and if I choose to add in the hacker array and put in que 5+ shortages the price remains to high to even begin to explain. 

Using 2 Hacker Arrays is even worse since the Que will delegate to both arrays- Once the first shortage ends the next begins,during this transition the first finishes loading up

Interesting; even on VP the AI counters my high production units with hacker arrays of their own.

Also keep in mind the prices can easily hit highs depending on map resources.

I had a game the other day where there were only 7 silicone piles, many robotics players, and needless to say, I rushed the piles, researched teleport and slant drilling asap, and silicon, glass, and electronics were all $500 + as early as day 4.