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Economy

bucolic_frolic

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2. Inflation depends on private pricing power, and usually demand.

Reply to Trexmaster (Original post)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:51 AM

Mar 20

Private pricing power i mean the owners of the goods. Maybe they don't care how much they sell so they could put high prices and just wait for suckers to buy. But usually there is demand. So they can raise prices until they don't sell. With food, it sells because people must eat.

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Make me understand... Inflation is here to stay - why? [View all] Trexmaster Mar 20 OP

infinite growth Be Leave On Mar 20 #1

Inflation depends on private pricing power, and usually demand. bucolic_frolic Mar 20 #2

Private pricing power & demand power Trexmaster Mar 21 #5

i'm not sure if you're asking why prices rarely go down ever, or why we're currently experiencing stubborn inflation unblock Mar 20 #3

No heterodox solutions? Trexmaster Mar 21 #6

The CPI for the last 13 months - progree Mar 20 #4

2020s... not 2010s, or before Trexmaster Mar 21 #7

For looking at inflation all the way back to 1947 -- progree Mar 21 #8