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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Following in the footsteps of Brandeis’ own Scott Shandler, Curtis Heroman has entered the NBA draft. Curtis, a Sujal-sized intramural player, has shocked the country by forgoing his last year of college eligibility to make his friends and family laugh.
