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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Kottke blogged a talk given at Fenway Park about the factors that have affected the design of the park. The talk was part of the pre-conference events for the AIGA Design Conference, which he’ll be covering on his blog. If you’re interested in these sorts of things, add him to your aggregator.
