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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As Heidi and I came out of the polls and headed to town center to get breakfast, we saw a full rainbow in the sky. I’ll take that as a good sign. 
November 2nd, 2004 at 11:54 pm
WTF is up with Florida? Think I’m gonna be sick.
November 3rd, 2004 at 4:13 pm
I was SURE the rainbow meant something. I guess not.
November 3rd, 2004 at 4:53 pm
It meant “don’t forget to vote on the ballot question regarding gay marriage.” Unfortunately, it forgot to indicate which way to vote.