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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While reading the latest Abu Aardvark, I ran across the web site for Reporters Without Borders. The group tracks attacks on press freedoms around the world.
May 13th, 2004 at 9:18 am
The International Federation of Journalists does similar stuff. It deals mostly with unions, but has a strong voice when journalists get in trouble, not of their own making.