Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...

An economic report that has been used frequently to justify austerity measures in the U.S. and Europe has one flagrant flaw: an Excel error.  The 2010 report by ...

You know the much-ballyhooed theory that high national debt always correlates to crappy economic growth? The one that’s trotted out on a regular basis by politicians arguing for austerity budgets and ...

Austerity has become almost like a four-letter word in some circles. It’s used to describe policies meant to reduce government spending and debt that may be painful in the here and now -- measures ...

They're calling it the "Excel Error Heard Round the World": Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart's widely cited paper about the relationship between public debt and ...

The UMass study found other potential flaws in the 2010 report including unconventional statistical weighting and selective data omission, but thus far Reinhart and ...

A major Austrian opposition political party on Monday corrected the results of a closely contested leadership election after it announced the wrong winner over the weekend due to a “technical” error: ...

On Sunday, one of the United Kingdom’s public health agencies announced that 15,841 covid-19 cases had gone unreported due to a “technical issue” that occurred during “the data load process.” As ...