Or you could look at the "Billion Prices Project" at MIT which actually only monitors ~5 million prices, but still says inflation is only a very little bit wors

Or you could look at the "Billion Prices Project" at MIT which actually only monitors ~5 million prices, but still says inflation is only a very little bit worse than the CPI... http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/ http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/