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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It seems that Michigan isn’t the most overrated team in the NCAA. With their defeat of Notre Dame, Michigan has proven they are only the second most overrated team in college football. I guess our friends in South Bend have finally proven they are number 1 in something.
Nice defense in the 4th quarter, defensive genius.
By the way, Donovan McNabb, I hope you were watching. See how good you could be? Like this Vince Young guy, you can run. Unlike this Vince Young guy, you can literally own a defense with your arm. If you somehow did both in a game, you might be pretty much unstoppable. Really. Think about it. Thanks.
One last thing… A lot of people at work think my Patriot hating is because they beat the Eagles last year in the Super Bowl. Not true. The loss to the Pats sharpened the Pats hating for sure, but I was getting tired of the Pats before that. Mostly because I hate dynasties with a passion. H-A-T-E them with a passion. It’s part of why I hate the Yankees. It’s why I always rooted against the Niners in the Montana/Rice and Young/Rice days, for example. I actually liked those players, but just got tired of the predictability of the seasons…
So, obviously, I was rooting for Texas all the way tonight. And, boy, was it fun to see Texas prevail over the favorite. Cocky punks showing their three-peat signs on the sideline after Dwayne Jarrett scored the last TD. Hope they enjoyed their 10 minutes leading the game at the end there.
