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I guess I would agree if there were no resource constraints, money supply increase wouldn't be inflationary, except I think there are resource constraints. US
by jaredklewis 1y ago
I guess I would agree if there were no resource constraints, money supply increase wouldn't be inflationary, except I think there are resource constraints.
US is basically at full employment. Labor is a very constrained resource and quite inelastic (for example, it takes ~30 years to grow and train a new doctor). Housing supply in the US is increasing, but the timelines here are glacial. I don't see how increasing the money supply won't increases wages and land values. And labor and land pretty much feed into the costs of everything else.
Sure, a few things which are mostly imported or automated (t-shirts, some commodities, etc...) might be relatively stable in price, but the bulk of household budgets isn't t-shirts. It's stuff like housing and services (healthcare, education, etc...); if wages and land prices go up, housing and services get more expensive.