You can't park money "in" assets, that's an economics myth. If you buy an asset, the money doesn't go "into" the asset, it goes into the bank account of the person selling the asset to you. They can either hold it in their bank account and get inflated away, or immediately turn around and spend it to buy something, which starts the same cycle over again.

Without understanding that about the way money works, it's impossible to understand why asset prices move or why price inflation happens.

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Sounds like semantics. If you invest your money in something, that money is not moving until you take it back out by selling it. Meanwhile the person you bought the asset from will invest it, park it, whatever you want to call it, into something else. Money in investment class assets just moves around between investment class assets, mostly. As more money arrives to buy those same assets, the price rises. What am I not getting.