From 1959 through 1994, M2 grew at 7.2 percent a year, against real GDP growth of 3.5 percent and CPI inflation of 4.7 percent — a combined 8.2 percent.
M2 has grown at 6.2 percent a year, while real GDP and the CPI have grown at 2.5 percent per year each — a combined 5.0 percent. The gap is now a positive 1.2 percentage points a year,

So this is why you hate the boomers so much.

Pretty much our entire lives have been lived in the opposite economic conditions from which the boomers lived through their 20s-50s.

Convenient for the government that while the CPI doesn't pick up these inflated things, the tax code largely does.