Do we pin this on the media? Sensationalism? Classism or racism? The police?
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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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September 11th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
You can read a first-hand account of this here.
September 11th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Actually, it appears that the NY Times article is based on that link…