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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US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who prosecuted this case, who is also a Republican appointee, responds to Bush’s statement. Listen to what he says, it pretty much lays out why Bush justification (as usual) was wrong.
I’m breaking tradition here and putting several clips in this slot. What Bush has done is that bad.
One more:
I hate these people. Will someone please rescue the Republican party from these corrupt, evil, self-centered idiots?
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