Let's now look at the facts (data). FRED (https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/) is a good source of economic data, especially about money. Click on the "popular series" tab in the FRED homepage.
Look at the "CPI for all urban consumers" series first. Remember that inflation is the rate of increase in CPI. Eyeballing the graph, would you say that the CPI accelerated since 2008 or not?