Inflation has been up since long time ago. Where have you been, my friend? Food cost has been up and milk price is up, gasoline price is up (relatively to previous years, of course). I bought a subway sandwich this week + a drink + chip (a combo meal) and it was 9.76 dollars. Same meal last year I remember around 7.55. We're talking about almost 2 dollars up ( a 26% increase in price). The dollar has been down in value significantly since the first QE. Look up "US dollar chart/index" and you see if it's going up or downhill (overall picture). We're close at 17 trillion dollars debt!
Housing is also up in price now while the economy is not doing any better. In fact, I believe it's worse than before. Lots of people don't have jobs and more and more people are on welfare, food stamp....heavily depending on goverment aid. Welcome to socialism and communism. We're heading there.
The collapse of Russia sounds familiar? You bet.