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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Ok, so I am thinking a fun game to play during the presidential debate this wensday will be to either take a run around my studio, or have a shot every time either Bush or Kerry says certain key words or phrases (ok, not very original, but I have never played, so it is new for me). Sooo, can anyone think of some phrases for me?
THANKS!
September 29th, 2004 at 10:51 am
I vote for shots!
-If Kerry says: “W stands for Wrong”, “Wrong War at Wrong time, etc.” any variation thereof
-If Bush garbles the English language (you may want to be careful on that one though, you could get damn drunk)
-the word flip-flop is used in any context other than describing trendy footwear
-Kerry talks about his service in Vietnam
Drain the bottle if Ralph Nader streaks across the stage naked!
I think we need the first official Fatmixx live chat Presidential Debate Booze-a-thon.
September 29th, 2004 at 11:46 am
Ohh great idea!!! Good excuse to go buy an ISight!!!
thanks tamar
September 29th, 2004 at 12:09 pm
I have not had the opportunity to confirm or deny the reports in the link below. If it is true, which I think it may be, it is a bad day for the Ohio Republican Party…
So I thought you might be interested in this web site, in case, you wanted to sign their petition. It is wrong for a member of any party to restrict access to the polls for any american citizen.
http://static.act04.org/act/paperstock.htm
September 29th, 2004 at 12:38 pm
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election-local.php?story=dispatch/2004/09/25/20040925-A1-02.html
inside the original post was a newspaper article explaining the issue… here is the link.
September 29th, 2004 at 3:12 pm
Whatever game you decide… make sure that any teachers in the group don’t bring anything to school… or you might have a problem like this Virginia school:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0929043limeade1.html
September 29th, 2004 at 3:44 pm
–2 drinks if Kerry can move his forehead.
–2 drinks if Kerry says “Lock Box”
–Drain the bottle if Bush says it
–1 drink if Bush links Iraq and Al-Quaeda
–drain the bottle if Kerry does
–1 drink if Bush says the recession started during Clinton’s Presdiency
–3 drinks if Kerry does
–1 drink if Kerry confuses economic trade terms, like outsourcing with direct foreign investment
–assume that Bush will and leave your hand off the bottle if Bush does it.
More to come, I’m sure.
October 1st, 2004 at 3:03 pm
Well, this is after the fact, but seeing it last night, I’d take a shot for every “consistent”, “inconsistancy”, and a long hesitation from Mr. President…