From: "Alex" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: BBC News - look at this link
Date: 10 Oct 2005 19:16:18 GMT

At 18:32:44 on 10/10/2005, Tumbleweed delighted uk.finance by announcing:

>  wrote in message
> news:1128949820.692111.61240@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> > BBC News appears to be deliberately confusing people over house prices.
> > There are 2 opposing stories on the same page:
> > 
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/default.stm
> > 
> > The first link says: House price inflation moves lower
> 
> so if inflation was 5% and then was 4% that is lower inflation but still up
> and, and would still make this
> 
> > The second links says: House price growth up again
> 
> correct

Why?  Price growth = inflation.  It's either up or down (or stable), but not
both.  It only really makes sense when you see that the articles are
referring to different months.