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"

An electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype.

dshort Updates and Featured Commentaries,  Indexes

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)

 

Graphic sites, July 2011

• Government Spending in United States: Federal State Local 2011 (by: Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com.  His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.)
• Good Infographics

Economic charts/graphs and discussions

Economic charts/graphs and discussions 12/22/2010
(Previous 12/07/2009)

• MetricMash -- Dynamic graphs of US economic data, state unemployment rates & historical charts --  historical charts enabling insightful analysis of US economic data including national and state unemployment rates

•  The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (thru 2006)

Economic charts/graphs and discussions

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Charts/Graphs, on , or discuss
the Economic situation.
12/07/2009

Charts and Graphics

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• Visualizing Economics is an economics web site started in 2006 by Catherine Mulbrandon. I believe design can contribute to public debates by creating information-rich, easy-to-understand graphics revealing the meaning of data without hiding its complexity.

Blogs

• Economix: (New York Times) will analyze the news and use economics as a framework for thinking about the world.
• Rational Irrationality: (New Yorker): on economics, money, and more. by John Cassidy
  
  

Articles

• Rational Irrationality: The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone. by John Cassidy
  

Books

• How Markets Fail: by John Cassidy
• The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters ~ Diane Coyle (Author)