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13. They didn't select all the fields in an excel spreadsheet

Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:12 AM

Apr 2013

Incompetence.

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How much unemployment did Reinhart and Rogoff's arithmetic mistake cause? [View all] xchrom Apr 2013 OP

Recommend KoKo Apr 2013 #1

None. dawg Apr 2013 #2

Bingo. Scuba Apr 2013 #4

+1 MannyGoldstein Apr 2013 #5

yep caraher Apr 2013 #16

They look like a a couple of seriously un-fun people MindPilot Apr 2013 #6

Her husband is chief economist for Morgan Stanley. jsr Apr 2013 #21

excellent piece Buffalo Bull Apr 2013 #7

Was it a mistake then? House of Roberts Apr 2013 #8

They didn't select all the fields in an excel spreadsheet Paulie Apr 2013 #13

I wonder if they already cast the parts for BeetleJuice 2? Baitball Blogger Apr 2013 #9

conservatives--bad at science and now bad at math dembotoz Apr 2013 #10

Probably none n2doc Apr 2013 #11

Was the error deliberate?? n/t malaise Apr 2013 #12

Minor clerical error jsr Apr 2013 #20

I know that's the whole purpose of NAIRU, Benton D Struckcheon Apr 2013 #19

Baker omits his own observation from 2010 caraher Apr 2013 #17

Bingo...they don't care. zeemike Apr 2013 #22

Yep caraher Apr 2013 #26

Living life by the spreadsheet is an error in itself. Cleita Apr 2013 #18

k&r and thanks for posting rhett o rick Apr 2013 #25