Did you know that Cringely covered wars and other real news before he because the Robert X Cringely we all know and love today? His recent column was a surprise to me, and his description of a potential poor assumption in the Bush doctrine was disturbing. Not so much about the Bush Doctrine, but that an event like that actually took place.
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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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