This is getting interesting… Of all of the screwups leading up to the Iraq War, the most significant came out of this office (Office of Special Plans). Democrats are now in charge and are looking into whether this office violated the law. It won’t help anything on the ground in Iraq today but hopefully will help prevent another Iraq episode in 30 years.
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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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