• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Price increase is the symptom of inflation because it happens after the cause.

    The reason you list interest rates is because it is lever to control money supply.

    Everything else you list is demand, what money is spent on, and subject to normal supply and demand pricing.

    Just because a price changes, doesn’t mean it’s inflation causing it.

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      7 months ago

      You’re getting your models confused.

      The supply demand is for a single item. It doesn’t work in the wider economy because as one good gets more expensive people switch to similar goods that didn’t increase - price increases, q demanded falls, customers swaps to a mirror good or don’t buy at all.

      Changes in technology is a supply side, not demand side. On foreign demand im referring to changes in exchange rates that can affect GDP and associated inflation pressures.

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        7 months ago

        The supply demand is for a single item

        Exactly, and the single item in this case is the US dollar. Increase the (money) supply and it’s value goes down relative to everything else.

        Inflation is a function of the fiat currency it references, not the goods that currency buys.