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		_account on April 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Excel Depression 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.

podperson on April 19, 2013 | [–]

Again, it's not arithmetic that's the cause.

rjempson on April 19, 2013 | | [–]

Nothing sucks in readers like a bit of Microsoft Schadenfreude. The may as well have implied the electricity powering the computers was to blame.

Anechoic on April 19, 2013 | [–]

To accurate/concise for Krugman?

Chances are Krugman didn't write the headline.

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