It will last forever. After covid, all manufacturers understood the value of limiting supply and extracting profits. Cars used to super cheap before covid, they will never go back to the same levels.
From now on, RAM will always be super costly for consumers, because they can't make massive deals like Apple/OpenAI/etc. We are the bagholders.
Of course, clearly businesses were just stupid before and only learned how to make revenue in 2021.
When lithium prices decreased over 80% from 2022 to 2025, it was because lithium miners felt altruistic. Car manufacturers were feeling greedy. This is how bad the thinking has gotten.
>> Cars used to super cheap before covid
Have they really ever been cheap? Also Tesla 3 is cheaper now, Yaris is still cheap as well.
Covid inflation was because of supply chain disruptions, loose fiscal policy (like Biden's ARP which a Central Bank analysis said added a few % to annual inflation), and money supply expansions. There was less goods and more money. When you go and trade money for goods, it should be obvious what happens.