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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and it’s about time. Bill O’Reilly on his web site lists MSNBC as an organization that spreads defamatory statements. Apparently, Olbermann finds it funny. Gotta add him to my Tivo.
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