What’s your profile of a typical terrorist? Eric Martin at ObWi links to a study done by MI-5 (the British equivalent of the national security component of the FBI) and a book called Leaderless Jihad, which I may have to read, which finds that the latest wave of terrorists aren’t necessarily as religious as they claim or we might want to imagine. There are some other surprising conclusions. Worth a read.
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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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