How Future Supply Moves Today's Prices

How Future Supply Moves Today’s Prices

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05/22/2026 Robert P. Murphy

This week, Bob walks through three thought experiments to show how expectations of future supply changes ripple into present prices and production decisions in ways that purely mechanical monetary frameworks like MV=PQ can’t capture.

Related:

How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today?: Mises.org/HAP551a
Bob’s 2008 Article on Oil Prices: Mises.org/HAP551b

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