Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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Amazing! A five-legged dog was found in North Carolina. Veterinarians, naturally, removed two of its legs.
November 29th, 2003 at 5:41 pm
Liked your headline much better, Dan. If you want to consider a career in journalism, lemme know
November 29th, 2003 at 6:53 pm
Yeah, I wasn’t going to say anything but your headline is completely misleading… Bad Dan, Bad Bad.