Falling Dollars

Falling Dollars

Commodities priced in U.S. dollars and inflation?

"With petroleum products Fromm natural gas to grain to meat, with dollar prices and increasingly expensive as the dollar falls, consumers need to take more of their portfolios to simply buy the same amount of goods. "Why are these products become more expensive as the dollar falls, if they have a price in dollars? (Assuming that its price remains constant). In other words – how the falling dollar make it more expensive? Am I interpreting that quote correctly? (The subject of the article is that a fall in dollar hit a price increase … import a stantpoint, I agree. But the previous sentence seems to be coming up with something slightly different). Thank you!

if i sell oil in dollars and then drop the dollar, I need more of those dollars to buy the same number of other things in Europe. Therefore, raising the price oil for more dollars … It is a cycle also increased prices of commodities for other reasons too. we are experiencing drought wheat is more expensive. more people are growing corn for energy and so less land is available for other crops. with China and India grow fast, base metals have risen (supply and demand) ultimately, increased commodity prices are not the result of inflation the cause. Inflation is generally regarded as a function of the increase in cash and credit.