I love the city, but they should be ridiculed for the whole bomb scare fiasco. And, here we go:
That’s actually pretty good.
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.
February 9th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
The “TOON TROUBLE” FOX tv bit was a nice touch.