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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A former coworker forwarded this link to me. No personal info is in the watermark. It just identifies that the file came from Amazon, but it’s in the encoded audio. Don’t think it affects the final audio, but still, it’s there.
Amazon has launched AmazonMP3 today. The service offers NO DRM, plain old MP3s, and will work on a Mac or PC. It does require a software install, but I’m OK with that. Prices are $0.89 per track, and the top 100 albums are $8.99 or less. This is awesome. I’m going to try it out in a bit, but just wanted to pass it on. If someone wants to write a review, add it below or email me and I’ll make it a top level post.
