Demand not only cannot cause inflation, it has nothing to do with inflation. To which some will reply that what Friedman actually meant was that governments print money, and then spend the money ...
The explosive inflation situation in chaotic Argentina ... the necessary demand for bills and thus must appeal to the printing in foreign mint houses, of billions of Argentine bills.
“Inflation is just like alcoholism,” he famously stated. “In both cases, when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first, the bad effects only ...