Providers ofconsumer staples such as Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CG) always raise prices when their costs go up. Well, the government has been pursuing that policy in recent years as well, as the Federal Reserve has initiated a series of programs (formally known as quantitative easing) that aim to keep interest rates -- andinflation -- at very low levels. Now concerns are growing that the steps taken to spark the economywill have negative long-term consequences and the current period of low inflation and interest rates will again come to an abrupt end.