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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MoveOn.org is trying to raise 10 million to get the winning Bush in 30 Seconds ad on the air during the Super Bowl. Please donate whatever you can to help make this happen. I would love to see that ad during the Super Bowl.
January 14th, 2004 at 4:10 pm
There’s not a channel that will air it, no matter how much money they get. Every pinhead in the country would threaten to boycott them, and they can’t afford that.
January 14th, 2004 at 7:55 pm
On the contrary… they’ve already bought airtime on CNN…