I don't agree about all the money not getting out of the banks. If the money they give to the banks comes off the printer instead of out of revenue, it means that there is more money out in the mainstream that is not being used for the banks, plus they are buying 85billion in debt through bonds every month and they are putting who knows how much into the Equities market which is out in the mainstream. They will have to increase the money going into the bond market to keep it afloat as the U.S. is the biggest buyer of U.S. debt. The only way they are keeping inflation figures down is buy creative accounting and Zero interest rates. Energy is not used in the calculation of CPI and it isn't used in Australia either.