You better fasten your seatbelts for what can be expected, ladies and gentlemen ! Ben Bernanke and "dream team" are defintely on the wrong train and will crash the QE II wagon against the next available wall !
I'd like to ask the CEO of Wall Mart if we have inflation. Obviously as a consumer, I am unable to qualify my opinion, perhaps someone who is an employer and wholesale purchaser might have a more informed opinion than the bean counters inn DC.
What that chart is missing are all the revisions and "hedonoic adjustments" over the years. CPI is a worthless joke. Look at cotton, oil or wheat prices if you want to see real inflation. http://www.shadowstats.com/article/consumer_price_index http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/0082023
So if you look at said commodity chart during a collapse, then we have massive deflation? I don't think looking at two or three commodity charts tells much beside the price action of said commodities. I don't really follow cotton very often, but I do know that clothing prices have been pretty flat over the past 15 years. In fact, they might even be down.