…or Cruel and Unusual Punishment? The Cleveland Browns fan (hasn’t he suffered enough?) who ran onto the field Christmas Eve as Pittsburgh was shellacking Cleveland has been sentenced to jail for Super Bowl weekend, and prohibited from watching the game, listening to it on the radio, or eating Fry-B-Que. OK, the last is simply a logical extension of the sentence, as Cleveland Browns fans would never make it to Alex’s party.
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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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