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Inflation Again

supply and demand drives inflation as with most anything else. post COVID supplys were limited, workers refused to return to work, some never. The Fed focused only on unemployment rates (Economists call that relationship the Phillips Curve) and the stockmarket, attempted to control inflation with high interst rates as if the cause was an over inflated economy. The strategy did not work, no suprise. Was the strategy, synical, ignorent or a planed deception. Causes 1 Labor shortage 2 Excess money supply 3 Supply shortage 4 Decreased merchant volumn, defensive pricing (unstable vicious circle in combination) Stock market has more to do with capital divergence and excess profit from massive imports and division of labor, but inflation also to a degree.

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