If prices rise because of supply and demand, that's not inflation but something else?

Eddy_Viscosity2 a day ago | parent | next [-]

If a bank issued you a loan for $100M, that money is effectively created out of thin air. If you then use that to buy a bunch of properties, you are increasing the demand. If others are doing this as well, prices will go up as people bid against each other for the limited supply of properties. This is inflation, because the new demand is directly caused by the creation of new money.

	▲	triceratops a day ago \| parent [-]
		That's begging the question. Inflation is always due to higher money supply. Higher money supply increases demand which increases prices and that's inflation. It ignore other factors that impact demand and supply.

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chrisco255 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah assuming money supply is flat or near flat, supply and demand will influence prices in one market or another in relation to the market as a whole, or you may have temporary periods of inflation followed by periods of deflation as we saw in the 1800s.

You can note this in the buying power of the USD during the 1800s: https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1