Cash in circulation - missing marketplace data? 

The Reserve Bank Australia reports cash in circulation increased during a time when cash use reported decreases. 

Whilst some of this is simply large scale de-risking e.g. people removing money from accounts and other instruments to hold in cash. 

We suspect that a thriving marketplace culture could account for some of those extra $50 notes in the hands of the Australian public. 

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Whilst everybody’s lifestyle changed suddenly, every home needed a office and every office had an oversupply of desks. 

Countless Australians turned to online marketplaces to deck out their new home work set-up, with computers, monitors and desks with task chairs.

Additionally all this time at home meant more time for a pet. Another large cash purchase which would have driven prices even higher.

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We suggest the data might be out there, but nobody has tracked the movements and price changes of common online marketplace purchases.