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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This is an excellent analysis of why Cheney did what he did with regards to getting the news out about the shooting. Be sure to make it down to the “After Matters” section at the bottom of the post which contains a number of external links and articles that are interesting in their own right. Jay Rosen is right on with this analysis.
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