…when my roommate tells me that he never asked me a question when he had just asked me a question.
I love it even more when he gets indignant about it.
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.
September 3rd, 2004 at 9:59 pm
what was the question? and why did he get indignant?