MIT's BPP Monthly Inflation Rate Has Been Falling

I'm not sure what's going on here, or if this means anything, but the monthly inflation measure from the MIT Billion Prices Project has been falling steadily since mid-February, see chart above.  From the recent peak of 0.82% on February 18, the monthly BPP inflation rate has fallen almost in half, to 0.48% as of April 3, 2011. 
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