They're all delusional, here's some choice bits from Paul "Fucking Dumbass" Krugman:
Now, I go grocery shopping myself, and am occasionally startled by the total at the cash register — although that’s usually because I wasn’t factoring in the price of that bottle of scotch I picked up along with the meat and vegetables. But I also sometimes think about what I paid for roughly the same stuff three years ago, and the truth is that I have no idea. I know that it was less, but off the top of my head I can’t tell you by what percentage. And if you say you can, forgive me for having doubts.
Was stuff cheaper in the past? Sure, but if you remember how cheap it was you're probably lying. Plus we're all just buying a few too many bottles of expensive scotch, right???
I was trying to find another Krugman piece, but it turns out he's always writing stupid shit like this. The one I wanted to find had him quoting official inflation numbers, then demonstrating his wisdom by getting into the nuts and bolts of what they're measuring - like the specific consumer goods and grocery items - and removing anything whose price has gone up a lot and replacing it with an item whose price had only slightly risen. All "nobel" economics prize winners should be beaten, tarred, feathered, and then forced to work a cash register for the rest of their lives.