I do -- though I do have to wonder what measuring inflation correctly could ever truly be given that we don't really have a way to measure money supply, and no basket of goods and services is ever truly complete enough to be a representative sample. Never mind that over time general consumption habits change -- shall we still weight the price of cigarettes with the same weight that we did in 1995?

Though I'm not sure I'd say it's that the US economy is so robust, so much as that the US financial sector reaps the rewards of the Cantillon effect, by which it is able to buy from all of the various prosperous economies of the world, in a somewhat neo-colonial arrangement. Arguably this serves to impoverish many in the US, much the same as how the Bank of England's hegemony in the 18th and 19th century didn't mean everything was rosey for working class brits. Just rosey enough to keep the army and police interested in keeping the populace from rising up.