Thursday, July 31, 2008

Top Economic Issue: Home Prices or Gas Prices?

Which economic issue is this "nation of whiners" more concerned with, home prices or gas prices? Here are the GoogleFight results:


Of course, this says nothing of which direction people want prices to go. Homeowners probably want home prices to go up. Renters should want home prices to go down. Environmentalists should want gas prices to go up. SUV owners almost certainly want gas prices to go down.

To try to get the most accurate GoogleFight results, I first pitted several synonyms for each issue, then chose the most popular ones. Of "home prices," "housing prices" and "real estate prices," "home prices" was the most popular. Of "oil prices," "energy prices," "gas prices" and "gasoline prices," "gas prices" was the most popular.

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