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Home Prices Rise For Seventh Straight Month
by The Associated Press
February 23, 2010

Home prices rose nationally for the seventh straight month in December as the U.S. housing market continues its bumpy road to recovery.

Home prices fall another 2.5%
By Les Christie, staff writerFebruary 23, 2010: 10:03 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Home prices fell just 2.5% during the last three months of 2009 compared with the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a closely watched gauge of home price movement. That was a big improvement over the past three years.

Home prices show small gain in December

Prices increased 0.3% from November, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index. It was the seventh straight month of gains, but the improvement continues to be weak.

So, which is it? Did home prices rise, fall or show a small gain?

As is most often, it depends on who you ask. The MMM (mass market media) are absolute masters at the motley manipulation of metrics. They spin, they tweak, they cut, delete, omit and extrapolate what is necessary to push their agendas. Why would NPR use the positive and CNN the negative? Profit. Take a quick look at the target demographics of each and you'll quickly see how this successfully and insidiously works. Do conservatives REALLY see the glass as always half empty and libs as always half full? Are we THAT divided? Is it THAT broken?

Back at home, where beer mugs and wine glasses are always half full, and the debate is focused more on the value of resistance versus cadence, we came across this ingenious new training concept from Brian Walton's group out Philly way, Cadence Cycling called Cadence TV. A major league tip of the cap to the Cadence boys for coming up with this one. I spoke with them this mornings and a video-promo date is scheduled for June. Can't wait to get out there and shoot some video of their beautiful facility (loaded with CompuTrainers).

I'm wondering now, if I build a CompuTrainer Multi-Rider Center in my house (to use as a studio for creating RCVman TV), would this be reported as a:

A) Gain
B) Loss
C) Small gain.




or D) HUGE GAIN. (the correct answer by any media standard).