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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Very, very tempting. And, since Heidi claims she no longer reads my blog regularly, I can probably buy it, blog about it, and she doesn’t even need to know!
(Expecting a call from Heidi in 10… 9… 8… 
)
Here’s the link to the $100 off Kindle Offer. Maybe someone else wants one.
There is a catch, which is that you’ll need to get an Amazon credit card. I really don’t want another credit card, so I guess no Kindle for me.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Yeah, I’m holding out for Kindle 2.0.