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		acover on July 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar Inflation refers to dollars buying less hamburgers. When there's a supply constraint - not enough hamburgers to go around - the price of hamburgers goes up and as such there is inflation.

ranger207 on July 11, 2022 [–]

Ah, I misunderstood the parent comment to be referring to _money_ supply. Whoops!

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