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Re:The Excel Depression by _account on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:05AM (#5574744)
Why not the 'Arithmetic Error Depression' in place of 'Excel'?

To accurate/concise for Krugman? Must be half a dozen articles about this I've seen now and all have titles suggesting Excel made the error.

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Re:The Excel Depression by podperson on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:29AM (#5574824)
Again, it's not arithmetic that's the cause.
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Re:The Excel Depression by rjempson on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:28AM (#5575055)
Nothing sucks in readers like a bit of Microsoft Schadenfreude. The may as well have implied the electricity powering the computers was to blame.
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Re:The Excel Depression by Anechoic on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:37AM (#5575078)
To accurate/concise for Krugman?

Chances are Krugman didn't write the headline.

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