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 ...

Have you ever stared at a spreadsheet, struggling to make sense of percentage calculations that just don’t seem to add up? Whether it’s a confusing formula, a misstep with zero values, or an ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel, that ubiquitous tool for data crunching, has been playing an unexpected role in the scientific world. The program has been screwing with data in genomics studies. A new report in the ...

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 ...