That's not necessarily true, over the last few years we saw that companies were able to begin pushing prices to increase margins and profits on the same volume

That's not necessarily true, over the last few years we saw that companies were able to begin pushing prices to increase margins and profits on the same volume of goods instead of manufacturing more goods and making the profit on volume. Some of the margin increase was due to real supply constraints, but not all of it. For instance, when Coke and Pepsi lost ~4% of their global sales by abandoning the Russian market, they just raised prices everywhere else to compensate, because they could, and people were willing to pay. Now moving forward, they seem to be losing their ability to push prices. My point is not all cost increases were due to real constraints - they were in the auto sector, but that's not true of all sectors. If I know this, I suspect the IMF does too, and incorporated that into the report.