Penny-ante concerns from a penny-ante brain.
Big picture, inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods.” All that matters is price/product quantity regardless of how you measure product quantity (number of chips, ounces, fluid ounces, grams, number of cookies, etc).
Inflation is ALWAYS and EVER caused by government.
Maybe printing FIVE TRILLION out of thin air to pay people to stay home and not produce anything for two years wasn’t such a good idea?
I agree with the cause of inflation? But why are there too few goods? Is production output being restrained purposefully?
Prices go up and prices go down. Demand fluctuates.
But people have only so much to spend.
If a bunch of people suddenly decide they want more of X, demand for X rises, and the price of X goes up.
But simultaneously people buy less of Y, demand for Y decreases, and the price of Y goes down.
That’s the way markets work, except...
If the price of everything goes up, it’s not demand that’s driving it, it’s money supply.