Damn Excel! How the 'most...is ruining the world"

21 October 2014, 15:17
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The popular Microsoft program has been implicated in the financial crisis, Europe’s growth problems, the U.S.’s weak economic recovery, and pretty much everything else. FORTUNE — Apparently some really smart people have trouble mastering Microsoft Office. Early Wednesday morning, in an e-mail that went out to reporters around 2 A.M., Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff copped to making an Excel error in their research paper tying high levels of government debt to low levels of growth. The paper, “Growth in Time of Debt,” Read More - Sources.