inelastic

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It’s about structural supply constraints meeting inelastic industrial demand.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 3, 2026

“Silver supply is structurally inelastic, with around 70-80% of global silver output coming as a by-product from mines that primarily produce lead, zinc, copper or gold,” Manthey said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

I’m also positive on Vital Farms, the market leader in pasture-raised eggs—an inelastic product at grocery stores.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

In fact, our working paper suggests that prison demand is not only inelastic but drives incarceration, not the other way around.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2024

Perhaps when he had reached the allotted span of life, he came to feel that the time had arrived to take things more easily, and to be less inelastic in his governance of the Abbey.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de