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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He’s consistent on this and it’s clear that he cares. This is the most consistent, least triangulated candidate in the race.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
There is no bigger dope in the Senate than Chris Dodd. The Democrat hopefuls are either corrupt (Hillary),whacky (Kucinich),inexperienced (Barack), Girly man (Edwards, also known as silky pony)and useless (Dodd).