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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“Intelligent Design:” proves once and for all - there’s none in Kansas.
In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.
Next thing you know, people will start to use magnets to heal themselves.
November 8th, 2005 at 9:58 pm
I’m currently reading What’s the Matter with Kansas which, for the faults it has, makes it easy to believe something like this would happen.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Exactly how many volumes exist in that collection?
November 8th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
this might make you feel better: http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/11/apparent_end_of.html
only town in york county to go Democratic… coincidence? And, by the way, having spent some significant time around York county, a clean sweep by a Democratic slate in this day and age is *remarkable*