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I couldn't find the story on Internet. Currencies are converted from one to another, and old prices have to have correction for inflation. I can't think of any metaphor involved.
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wordy,
the reporter was being numixmatic, to coin a word.
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Yuh. Instead of having problems with the currency of his news, he was having problems with the news of his currency ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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My question is, shouldn't I have stuck to pounds in the adjustment for inflation, and then for clarity expressed the adjusted amount in dollars?
Yes. (former editor resisting temptation to rant about "Editors in my day would never have let that get by ...")
...and I'm just being overly sensitive to terminology,
As any good editor should be!
Every Style Book I have seen is clear about consistancy in stories. If you start with pounds continue therein inserting (parenthetically) any comparison to another currency. This also allows another paper that picks up the story to use the parenthethesis to change the original amount into their own currency.
Pounds to (dollars) or pounds to (yen) etc.
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the reporter was being numixmatic, to coin a word.Oh! Oh! I am rolling! That's at least a 3-way.
Excellent, my dear!
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Wordwind sez..."...did he mix financial references? Is there a word for doing so? I don't think he should have done it."
Wrongo, Princess among Peas, better clarity than ground rule consistantcy. A hundred years ago a gallery in Ireland that paid for pantings in american dollars would be considered curious if not suspect. And today everyone, even the English, knows how much $1,500 is worth. I hope there is not and will never be, a word that means " the act of being numixmatical". As it is, too many English words clutter the American Language that we love and speak.
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Milum, you posted! [grinning all over my face e] I am so glad you're still here. 
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