Friday 11 July 2008

Dramatic headlines

As I said in my previous post ... hopefully we'll see an end to the boring and misleading comments about 'worst house price falls since the 1990s' and start hearing phrases like '... in living memory' or '... since records began' or, for that matter, '... ever'.

The Daily Telegraph has now gone for "Slide in house prices is the worst since the Great Depression"

Damn. I forgot that one *kicks self*. But out of interest, am I correct in thinking that '... since the Great Depression' isn't quite such a long period as '... in living memory'?

2 comments:

AntiCitizenOne said...

Boom in house affordability more like.

Nobody (except the Chancellor) really wins from higher house prices.

Bill Quango MP said...

"Cave prices tumble to new low."
Early Mail.

Mr Ugh-Umugh, director of the cave dwellers association, reported that the fall in cave prices is the worst since the Cretaceous period.
"Many Neanderthals are facing negative equity.They bought in the volcanic rise of the mid Jurassic boom.
And more immigrants crossing the land bridge from France are also putting pressure on social services...