changes to supply and demand | zenaan + vijay by Zenaan Mannan

26solankivijay — 2025-09-25 11:31:04 UTC

26mannanzenaan — 2025-09-25 11:31:46 UTC

Guardians pull off the biggest comeback in MLB history

26mannanzenaan — 2025-09-25 11:41:49 UTC

Last night, the Cleveland Guardians overcame a -15.5 game deficit to gain 1st place over the Detroit Tigers. This marks the biggest comeback in MLB history, as no team has ever come back from such a deficit to gain 1st place in their division. The Guardians' new found success is sure to drive demand up for their tickets, as fans have greater expectations of the team to win more games and go far in the playoffs. Demand going up will cause ticket prices to rise.

Y2K: What Did and Didn't Happen in the Year 2000

26mannanzenaan — 2025-09-25 11:45:34 UTC

Trump's Announcement decreases demand for Tylenol

26solankivijay — 2025-09-25 11:46:52 UTC

The announcement made by Trump affects the demand for Tylenol since it puts their products they provide in a bad light where it affects pregnancy and may cause autism. The specific shifter for this scenario would be the expectations of the product decreasing. As a result of the announcement, the demand curve would shift to the left since expectations of the company's medicine go down. As a result of this shift to the left, both price and quantity demanded decrease. People will be affected as the price of tylenol would go down as well as the demand for the product. The individuals who would specifically be affected are those who are pregnant since they would most likely not take the medicine as a result of the announcement.

Y2K causes big computer scares

26mannanzenaan — 2025-09-25 11:56:42 UTC

In the years leading up to 2000, many people were scared about a computer bug that would crash computers around the world. It was said this bug would occur right on New Year's Day, 2000. To combat this, many businesses and individuals bought new computer software and upgrades. They had believed that potentially investing in the computers would help them dodge the effects the bug would have. This scare drove up demand for new computer replacements and software with the shifter being advancements in technology and expectations for the future. Due to such high demands for new software, both price and quantity demanded go up.

Created Scenario

26solankivijay — 2025-09-25 11:57:24 UTC

Lebron James, who is the face of the NBA, retires from the NBA which negatively affects total viewership as people can not agree on a valid replacement option for him. This would affect the quantity demanded for the NBA league pass to decrease as the expectations for the total NBA viewership. As a result of this terrible news, the demand curve would shift to the left which would cause prices and quantity demanded of the league pass to decrease