# Accumulation of Stock — increases supply that depresses — Market Price of Commodities

## Subject

Accumulation of Stock

## Predicate

increases supply, depressing

## Object

Market Price of Commodities

## Relation Type

regulates

## VSM Channel

S3 → S2 (capital deployment increases supply, correcting price signal)

## Evidence

Book I, Chapter 7: "When the quantity brought to market exceeds the
effectual demand, it cannot be all sold to those who are willing to pay
the whole value of the rent, wages and profit, which must be paid in
order to bring it thither. Some part must be sold to those who are
willing to pay less, and the low price which they give for it must
reduce the price of the whole."

## Feedback Role

**Market Price Balancing loop (negative/balancing):**
Market Price above Natural Price → attracts → Capital inflow →
increases supply → depresses → Market Price back toward Natural Price.

This edge (increases supply, depressing) closes the balancing loop:
directed capital raises output until oversupply brings price back down.
This is the mechanism behind Smith's claim that natural price acts as
the "central price, to which the prices of all commodities are
continually gravitating."
