1.) John Kerry lastnight:
“The president telling us about fiscal responsibility is like Tony Soprano telling us about law and order…”
2.) Is there anything so beautiful as a good cup of coffee in the morning?
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.
October 14th, 2004 at 10:34 am
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….coffee