Inflation will always be tame if you carefully exclude all the categories where prices are rising.
Sorta like low unemployment numbers if you exclude those that don’t have a job.
Do you always rain on everybody's parade?
Actually, I was going to make the same observation.
The volatile categories of food and fuel are excluded from the indices simply because they do fluctuate rapidly and in both directions. They try to get the inflation figure from things that are more stable and rise and fall slowly so that trends may be deduced..............
So if you don’t need to travel to a job or eat, everything’s fine! Don’t worry, be happy! There’s unemployment, and foodstamps, and everything!