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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You must check out this new blog I found called Surviving Grady. Think Bill Simmons before he was BILL SIMMONS. Among my favorites are this post on identifying Red Sox beards. My favorite line so far:
This afternoon, we get Clement vs. Zito. And you wanna know just how good Clement is? Dude’s on the five dollar bill.
So far, this has been a pretty good Red Sox blog. (by the way, the site is new to me, not new as in just started… just FYI)
I almost can’t believe I’m saying this, but all these Yankee/Red Sox games so early in the season are a complete waste of good baseball. I just can’t seem to consider it special so early in the season. It doesn’t matter yet because there’s still 150 games left to play. Especially after last year and the absolutely humiliating comeback that Boston had, it’s hard to get really excited about these games.
I still get excited if it’s actually a good baseball game, but that’s really about it. Right now, for example, I’m flipping between the Sox game, the Sixers game (Go Sixers!), and King of the Hill. That’s how excited I am about the Sox game.
What’s funny is that I bet they did this to give the April games some more “meaning” for the fans. It’s had the opposite effect, I think, for most fans. Granted, I still know folks at work who are making the trip out to Boston for tonight’s game, but I don’t think it has the urgency it usually has when the standings matter.
