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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Just FYI, I’ve upgraded FatMixx to WordPress 2.0. Please let me know of any issues you see either in the comments or via email. Hope this goes smoothly. I know I’ve got several plugins to rewrite now… 
December 31st, 2005 at 1:27 am
Testing the comments functionality to make sure that the spam plugin still works right (using Spam Karma 2 instead of the Akismet plugin that comes with WP 2.0 by default. Not sure why I’m doing that, but I figure, why the heck not.
Now, I wonder what happens if I say poker.