This is great stuff:
Love working here… smart people everywhere. Whoever got him to make this announcement here was brilliant.
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.
This is great stuff:
Love working here… smart people everywhere. Whoever got him to make this announcement here was brilliant.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:50 am
I definitely love that he cracked up at the end of it.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:22 am
That was the dumbest!!!