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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This is a good summary of the candidate selection shenanigans carried out by both parties in primary and general elections. Using Tom DeLay’s deliberate drop out timing as a starting point, they highlight how both Democrats and Republicans use filing deadlines and election law loopholes to their advantage replacing candidates.
