Tim Burton is remaking “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” (although his version will be called “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”). For those of you who didn’t go to Hopkins, every year the drama group would show “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” around the time of first semmester exams, complete with bags of candy that got tossed around the room. I must say, seeing that movie with a room full of college-age students put a whole different spin on many of the scenes….
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11/24/2008
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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