Question

Anybody know where I can get a year by year summary of the annual inflation rate, going back to 1928 at least?

Answer 1

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Annual_Inflation/annual_inflation_chart.htm

Answer 2

You might want to try the following website:

http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx

Also, you can try looking in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website

Answer 3

Data sets for visualizations can be found at ManyEyes:
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

Answer 4

Wolfram Alpha is good for things like this :
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=annual+inflation+rate+from+1928