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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We’ve been around a bit. Washingtonienne is now driving our traffic to close to 500 visits a day (thousands of hits). Nice work, folks.
May 26th, 2004 at 10:58 pm
can we say “obsession!!!!”
May 27th, 2004 at 10:21 am
I was going to ask you about that. I’m geting bizarro traffic too. Mostly from D.C. and a lot of it from governmental offices. Weird, huh?
May 27th, 2004 at 11:21 am
well, the story is most relevant to D.C. since it’s a local story…
You should check out the follow on stuff… Go to the Dazed link on google (search for Washingtonienne). The fox news interview was pretty funny in a wow, Fox doesn’t get the funny factor, huh?