>>Or maybe all of the world's money is devalued at the same rate, so we don't notice :). Just looking at the prices of elementary food and gas - they have gone up between 10% and 30% over the last 18 months, and yet the rate of dinar (RSD) vs $ and € is more or less the same. When we arrived, it was 102RSD=1€, then it went all the way up to 107, then down to 97, and then it took it months to get back to 106 (104 today). And the dollar performs similarly - it stood for a while at around 79, then fell to 76 and then very gradually picked up its way to 82 (82.4 today). Which is small, compared with the actual inflation your pocket senses when buying groceries.
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>Groceries in Canada are up 7%. Would you say that somehow economies are kept running because they are held up by a secret world government bankster organization that pats us on the head and doesn't tell us anything?

All of that is wrong, to an extent. Secret, not quite, just not so newsworthy so it never reaches the headlines - but it can be dug out. World - I don't think so, there are still a few countries that have paid off their debts to IMF or Paris club and then just had to have a change of government (like Romania in 1989, recently Libya, Russia is still holding out); check the list of countries which don't have central banks, or whose central banks are not part of the world system; who truly print their own money and don't dance as IMF plays (if you can find any). Government - irrelevant, but useful as a scapegoat and serving as a legal cover. Organization - not quite, no visible seat or name or statute or set of rules; organized (as in crime) yes. Pats us on the head? Not at all, they club us at the pocket - sometimes directly (as loan sharks do), sometimes via government - taxes - bailouts, but it goes out of our pocket. And they do tell us a lot, just not the truth.