Chương 209: 39.1 Market Economics?

The concept of the market had always been both simple and complicated for me. For one, the concept of supply-and-demand was as easy to grasp. If something was in demand and supply was scarce, then it was understandable that the price of something would go up. Likewise, the same goes for when supply is high and demand is low. In that case, the price would go down.

Why, I still remember when garlic of all things became as expensive as any other spice because of some random circumstances. It made a huge fuss back in the day, seeing as garlic was one of the most common things to use and buy. Of course, reasons for it ranged from simply lack of supply to a weak harvest to outright cartels. In the end, life went on and the price went down after a bit of time.

So I suppose that the thing worked just fine. Then again, the market could also be easily manipulated by those with enough capital to rock the boat.

"So, before I go through my spiel, are there any changes on Shizu's end?" I asked.