Just reading an article entitled Britons fear cost of living will double this year and thought we were moving towards crazy inflation... do Britons really think that the annual rate of inflation this year will be 100%?
Of course there is a chance that I'm an ignoramus and the "cost of living" is somehow a way of saying "rate of inflation", but I thought that the rate of inflation was near enough the "rate of the increase in the cost of living" ...
I wish I could set it on Google news to not show me stories from journalistic sources I think are shit, The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Times immediately spring to mind at the moment.
Either they've changed the title of the article, or you're mistaken. It now claims that Britons fear "inflation will double" this year which (as you point out) is different from the cost of living. There is/was a site which showed post-publication editing of articles on news websites, but I've lost the address.
Posted by: Bill on June 14, 2008 12:38 AMThey've changed it. Maybe they read my blog... or maybe they read the comments to their own site...
There's this one on there:
"The headline of this article is highly misleading. There is nothing in the article to suggest that the cost of living will double over the year, merely that people thing the rate of increase (inflation) will be double the target rate of increase."
Posted by: Ed on June 14, 2008 12:41 AM