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 have decided to jump on the bandwagon, and ask everyone’s opinion about PDAs (which one do you like? What is crap? Do you use it??). My new resolution is to try and be a bit more organized in my life, and I am thinking a nice new electronic gadget is exactly what I need. Oh, and I only have a powerbook at home, so I would prefer something that is compatable with OS X.
August 11th, 2004 at 9:22 pm
I have the Tungsten E which I’m starting to use more day to day. Syncs with iSync (though you need to install Palm Desktop and it’s a bit of a pain to use) and has a lot of nice features. Inexpensive (relatively speaking) and runs the latest Palm OS.
it’s not as fast as the better PDAs out there (for a few hundred more, you get the Tungsten T or some other nicer ones).
I don’t know if PocketPC works well with OS X, but since it’s a MSFT product, I’m unlikely to try one out anytime soon.
August 11th, 2004 at 11:43 pm
My favorite PDA’s are big wet sloppy kisses in the mall