The high prices are merely an artifact of our artificially-depressed dollar.
The Fed should be setting the interbank rate at closer to 5% rather than 2% - it’s widely recognized that this rate should be almost identical to the annual rate of growth of the economy, the GDP.
Of course, if we can import more cheap Chinese plastic junk toys and move them around and mark them up multiple times, we can make our GDP boom!!
The GDP gives such a false sense of prosperity when we get into imports.