Please allow him to introduce himself:
The master plan...
Download in_a_wordinflation.mov
... and how it works:
Don't say you haven't been warned.
UPDATE: I completely forgot to give a huge raising of the chapeau to my colleague Bruce Champ, master of the Mac, who provided me with the video snippets. I guess the devil made me do it.
EXTENDED INFO UPDATE: In response to Barry Ritholtz's question, the movie is a 1942 MGM propoganda short titled Inflation. Aside from the macro lesson, it is famous for including the first film appearance of Esther Williams.