The Real Reason Nothing Ever Gets Cheaper

You check the price of something you bought a year ago. Maybe a coffee, a flight, a bag of groceries. And for a second you genuinely can’t believe it. You remember paying less. You’re certain of it. And your first instinct is that someone is responsible. A corporation squeezing margins. A government printing too much. Someone to blame. That instinct isn’t crazy. But it’s only ever part of the story. Because underneath all of that, there’s something much older and much stranger at work. A mechanism so deeply built into how modern money functions that even if you fixed everything else, this would still be happening. 🔔 FISCALLY CURIOUS New video every week to help you understand money. Subscribe so you never miss one:    / @fiscallycurious   📺 IN THIS VIDEO → Why inflation is not prices going up but something much stranger happening to your money itself → The counterintuitive reason economists actually fear falling prices more than rising ones → Why wages almost never come back down once they go up and what that means for every price you pay → Why technology keeps making production cheaper but your grocery bill keeps climbing anyway → The hidden way inflation has quietly been working in your favour without you noticing 📚 SOURCES — Central bank inflation targeting policy — Documentation of the two percent annual inflation target adopted by most developed economy central banks as deliberate policy rather than an unavoidable outcome. — Bank of Japan, 1990s to 2020s — Historical record of Japan’s decades long struggle with deflation including interest rates at and below zero and government debt exceeding twice the size of the national economy. — Federal Reserve, 2021 — Official communications describing post pandemic inflation as transitory and subsequent reassessment of what price normalisation actually meant for persistent wage and cost structures. — William Baumol, economist, 1960s — Original identification of Baumol’s cost disease explaining why prices in labour intensive sectors like healthcare and education rise even without inefficiency as wages increase across the broader economy. 📹 WATCH NEXT How Banks Create Money out of Nothing    • How Banks Create Money Out Of Nothing   💼 BUSINESS INQUIRIES [email protected] #inflation #moneypsychology #economics #moneyexplained #fiscallycurious DISCLAIMER: Everything on this channel is for educational and entertainment purposes only. I’m not a financial advisor and nothing here should be taken as financial advice. Always do your own research and speak to a professional before making any financial decisions.