It's not that inflation is suddenly a surprise today. The surprise is that inflation has taken so long to 'suddenly' appear. Most of us have expected it at leas

It's not that inflation is suddenly a surprise today. The surprise is that inflation has taken so long to 'suddenly' appear. Most of us have expected it at least 5 to 10 years ago. The government can't throw billions and trillions of dollars into the economy willy-nilly and expect there to be no inflationary effect. The money-splashes have really got going about 14 years ago with the huge bail-outs of 2008. What's taken so long?