The Colbert Report
Austerity's Spreadsheet Error
Season 9 E 90 • 04/23/2013
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff's 2010 debt study inspires austerity around the world, but grad student Thomas Herndon debunks the results.

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Sign Off - Goodnight
Stephen says goodnight.
04/23/2013
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Austerity's Spreadsheet Error - Thomas Herndon
Graduate student Thomas Herndon identifies little staggering omissions in a prominent academic paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt."
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Austerity's Spreadsheet Error
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff's 2010 debt study inspires austerity around the world, but grad student Thomas Herndon debunks the results.
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Sign Off - Goodnight
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