Amazon bought a copy of Rowling’s Tales of Beedle the Bard, her follow on to the fabulous Harry Potter series. Only 7 copies exist and they look hand written. Check out the page for more details. They bought this copy at auction for £1,950,000. Crazy amount of money but it is a beautiful book.
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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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