>>We are seeing real inflation here and I feel its not accurately getting through in the stats. I know my weekly shopping bill seems to climb every week. Basic staple items are going up a lot.
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>I've noticed the same so I'm not sure where the stories of not seeing it in the states yet come from...

I think he said "in the stat(istic)s". And, as Vlada Bulatović Vib wrote

"Statistika, naša dika
što poželiš, to naslika"

(statistics, our pride, what you wish, it paints)

IOW, there's always a way to count this and not that, to correct for seasonal fluctuations (of what, tomatos? the price is the same all year) etc etc... so they can show that there's no inflation. But if you take your average shopping cart with a dozen items (say, a loaf of bread, gallon of milk and such), and track the price of that, all of a sudden you see that the official statistics don't share the universe with yours.