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Ii era. so, heres the punch line, if you correct the spreadsheet error and put the intentionally omitted countries back into the data set, the entire statistic falls apart. instead of countries with the dangerous level of 90% debt to gdp having a negative growth rate of .1%, they have a modestly positive growth rate of 2.2%. that is a big freaking difference, the difference between recession and recovery, which means the intellectual cornerstone for the arguments about austerity coming from the ...

An incredible thing happened last week. honestly, its one of the most astonishing things in recent economic history, a grad student had an assignment, rerun someone elses data and see if you can get the same results. he chose the reinhart/rogoff study. the first he sees is the crucial column in their data, the one that averages the growth rates of countries with debt to gdp ratios of 90% is wrong, its got a mistake. the average should have contained data from rows 30 to 49, but instead only aver...

Australia, austria. so, heres the punch line, if you correct the spreadsheet error and put the intentionally omitted countries back into the data set, the entire statistic falls apart. instead of countries with the dangerous level of 90% debt to gdp having a negative growth rate of .1%, they have a modestly positive growth rate of 2.2%. that is a big freaking difference, the difference between recession and recovery, which means the intellectual cornerstone for the arguments about austerity comi...

Successfully travel abroad and receive training. think about the 7/7 bombers there is this common pattern but more often than not noter occasion necessity to go abroad. receive the training and come back and execute the plot. >> bret: what about the radicalization within families and how this younger dzhokhar may have been, well, i guess recruited for a better word by his older brother? >> the family link is important throughout the jihadist world, including al qaeda and related terrorist groups...

On our radar this morning, after a long recovery, welcome back to the senate for illinoiss mark kirk. senator scott brown to be next senator took some jabs at a possible opponent and the data set for south carolinas special election. first we want to tell you about secretary of state hillary clinton. she is now recovering at home today after being released from the hospital. clinton was admitted for treatment of a blood clot sunday. the secretarys senior adviser released a statement saying clint...

In 10 key gaat he will ground states, identified as competitive by "politico". that is according to a "politico" george washington university poll. joining us executive editor of "real clear politics", tom beavin. tom, according to your distillation of these polls, at this point in time it is advantage romney but just by a hair? >> well, certainly at the national level thats true. and that "wall street journal" poll that you mentioned was taken after the deck debate. so looking, sort of at the d...

You be if we hadnt supported it, not very upset. >> thats a good question. >> its a way to find out your opinion is not one you want to represent because you didnt care. >> we should say theres one place or places in which longitudinal studies are measured. gay marriage, for instance. we have a long data set on peoples opinion. it seems like the polls are moving in a direction that are measuring a shift in public opinion as a fact about where peoples opinions are. its not completely useless. its...

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Losing, it would be interesting to know where they are. my guest is they are not in the swing states. i think its probably a sign of low enthusiasm for obama which is a huge problem for the obama campaign because they need to hold onto the numbers they had to separate. but at the end of the day we just need another data set. i personally think this number is low. my sense is that there are more switchers for obama than what this number is showing. bill: what gives you that sense? >> i travel acr...

Department of energy application to demonstrate this at large scale producing mega watts of power as opposed to a few tens of kilowatts were doing currently. >> what are the next six months for you? >> as far as this wind energy project goes, its basically proving out the technology in the field. theres some skepticism when you say that youre going to use turbines that are a tenth of the size of the current ones, but are more efficient and actually cost less. so what were trying to do is to deve...