Quoted from Xenon75:

No one seems to understand inflation - there is no bubble. There is however a devaluation of the dollar and other currencies by the fiscal policies being employed right now.
25% of all dollars EVER created in the history of the country were created last year. Therefore at minimum you will see at 25% inflation in prices over the coming weeks/months/years. The only way to avoid it is to cull the money from the supply which there is no way in hell they are going to do that. It's the only thing keeping this illusion going.
That is why the FED wants to stop using the term transitory inflation, it's not going away. We are nearing the precipice, you may want to read up on Venezuela and see what happened to them when their government had similar fiscal policies.

Quoted from CrazyLevi:

In 2021, is it possible to have a pinball pricing thread without an inflation rant?
It's def a nice new wrinkle on a very old suit.
Here's what I don't get...if pinball pricing explosion is due to inflation and bad economic management, which of course happened precisely the end of January, 2021, what explains the pinball pricing explosion during 2016-2020, when of course we all know everything was completely awesome with the economy?

Quoted from NC_Pin:

The US Money Supply tripled between 2000 and 2020, but prices did not triple.... prices went up 50% over that same period. You can not draw a straight line between MS growth and price growth there are way too many other factors at play.