No country fiddles their official inflation rate quite like the Yanks do.

Their CPI inflation rate stands at around 8% because annual changes to food and energy prices aren't included in their number. Those are what everyone needs to live - save perhaps the homeless re energy - and I think the Shadowstats site which do include those necessities place their real CPI inflation rate at 21%.

It's curious that with the US population at circa 330 million, they can't seem to organise a demo of 50k or more to protest against anything.