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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I don’t endorse everything in this game, but it’s certainly, uh, interesting… [Eschaton]
It looks dumb at first, but keep playing for about 10 minutes… you’ll start getting to the “lessons” hidden in the game play. Plus, be sure to use the “special moves” for each character…
May 29th, 2004 at 9:33 pm
Interesting game, but I’m not sure I needed to see Voltron sodomizing the Statue of Liberty.