Might be a bit offensive, but not bad overall:
Clever and something only an independent could do.
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.
Might be a bit offensive, but not bad overall:
Clever and something only an independent could do.
After all, that’s really all that matters in this screwed up story.