Best I can tell from what everyone is saying is around 5% is going to be the new normal. I really wish that people would discuss inflation accurately because people often don't associate things correctly. They think rate go down = price go down which is not true. It only means price just increases at a slower rate but not as slow as the 2.5% or whatever it should be at. In any case, the inflation is still there. An insidious cancer, ever growing.