• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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    10 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.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      10 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.