[Targan]

I can relate to price changes in T2K through what happened during a segment of my campaign. Admittedly it was a micro version of the macro economics this thread is focussing on. Major Anthony Po, the CO of the party in my campaign, had been tasked with finding the NYC gold reserves and organising a census but he didn't like the idea of the second task at all so he came to the conclusion that a census would be much easier to conduct if most of the inhabitants of NYC were dead. To that end he started having representatives of his unit attend the regular street markets in NYC disguised as traders. Po instituted a strict trade policy - he bought food (more than he needed for his own men) and sold low-grade weapons and ammunition. The idea was that the inhabitants of NYC would eventually starve while shooting each other (I don't think Po had a realistic idea of how many survivors there were in NYC at the time).

Unfortunately Po's unit ended up in conflict with a CIA-led group in NYC that was also looking for the gold reserves and they had several shoot-outs in and around the markets. Eventually the shoot-outs became so regular and so violent that the markets occurred less and less frequently. Over the half a dozon or so markets that Po's men attended however there were defnite changes to the price of some commodities. Weapons and ammo prices came down and food prices went up.