I’m truly saddened by this, and I wish the best to her family and friends. She wrote one of the best books on George W. Bush I’ve ever read. It made me laugh out loud and made me mad at the same time. Only the rarest of satirists can pull that off. Rest in Peace, Molly Ivins. (via Atrios)
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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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