Studs Terkel gives the 2 minute history lesson on why FISA and other limits on government surveillance are important. We are doomed to repeat this history unless we learn from it and stop this overreach by our government. These type of surveillance programs inevitably get abused. Transparency within sensible limits of national security (which FISA provides) is the only way this country can work. (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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