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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Finally trying to get some utility out of my Netflix account. I’ve had the same 3 movies for like 5 months now, costing me something like $100.00. Pretty hefty for 3 movies. Well, the first movie, Formula 51, sucked balls. Terribly. It could’ve been funny like Lock Stock, but ends up being just corny.
June 1st, 2004 at 9:24 am
I got rid of my netflix, i never remember to return the movies, plus i have On Demand now
June 1st, 2004 at 10:03 am
yeah, but we like the idea of getting old seasons of TV shows… NetFlix has some good stuff that way.
June 1st, 2004 at 7:25 pm
I did the Blockbuster version ($24.95/month). In the last week, I rented 12 movies. It may slow down though (I really need TiVo).
June 1st, 2004 at 8:20 pm
speaking of which darling, what do you think of getting the first season of The West Wing? All for Josh’s sake, of course….