Not the first time, but the first time with a Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi. Abu Aardvark, a poli-sci prof and Mid East specialist and the source for that link, has been writing on his blog for some time that Al Jazeera’s non-news programming represents one of the more moderate media voices in the Arab world. The reporter who did this particular report is also going to try to speak to other Chief Rabbis apparently.
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11/24/2008
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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