Reinhart and Rogoff weren't available to be interviewed, but they did provide the BBC with a statement.
In it, they said: "We are grateful to Herndon et al. for the careful attention to our original Growth in a Time of Debt AER paper and for pointing out an important correction to Figure 2 of that paper. It is sobering that such an error slipped into one of our papers despite our best efforts to be consistently careful. We will redouble our efforts to avoid such errors in the future. We do not, however, believe this regrettable slip affects in any significant way the central message of the paper or that in our subsequent work."
You know Krugman is an accomplished spinner of statistics to use as proof of his mis-conceptions and mis-characterization of reality.....in plain English, he is a liar.
Heres an example....
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-welfare-recipients-mostly-vote.html
Just like austerity has nearly destroyed Europe, if the republican teabaggers had their way, we'll see our economy enter another recession.
Just like austerity has nearly destroyed Europe, if the republican teabaggers had their way, we'll see our economy enter another recession.
It is not austerity per se that is destroying Europe, it is the Eurozone which has so many of the Mediterranean countries in a deadly embrace.
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/euro-destroying-european-union-ripping-153711365.html
if the repugs can stir up/create enough unhappiness via another recession they hope that more people will vote repug
austerity is just one method to create chaos when times are hard and in chaos lies opportunity