Economic Indexes

CPI [core] -- Consumer Price Index, the best known measure of inflation (which is the overall inflation rate excluding Food and Energy). The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) divides all expenditures into eight categories and assigns a relative size to each. (This also shows the growth of the CPI components as well as the core and extended CPI growth)

 Inflation Deflation- New York Times (Econmix.blogs) Aug, 2011

"John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics"

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INFLATION

• Consumer Price Index (1955-Now)
• Inside the Consumer Price Index
• Inflation: A Monthly X-Ray View
• A Long-Term Look at Inflation, 1872 to Present
• PCE Price Index
• Two Measures of Inflation: CPI & PCE
• Producer Price Index Update

GDP -- Goss Domestic Product.

• Latest GDP Update
• Real GDP Per Capita (1960-Now)
• Calculating "Real" GDP (deflators)
• Visualizing GDP (components)

The S&P Composite (CPI adjusted) stretching back to 1871

GDP (growth) correlated with 28 other factors (filipspagnol.../stats-on-human-rights)