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Wonk Watch 7.1.09

By Gabriel Beltrone
Posted Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 4:56pm

Brad DeLong explains why the Obama administration's forecasts of unemployment numbers for 2009 undershot the actual mark by such a large margin.

  • Gabriel Beltrone is an intern at The Big Money.

Confessions of an Amazon Associate


By James Ledbetter
Posted Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 12:32pm

Not long ago, TBM's "Kindle Chronicles" columnist Marion Maneker asked me in an e-mail exchange whether, if we covered a particular aspect of e-publishing in his column, it might look like The Big Money was in bed with Amazon (AMZN). I had to write back, only slightly joking, that as an Amazon Associate, we actually are in bed with Amazon.

  • James Ledbetter is editor of The Big Money, and of The Great Depression: A Diary, published this month by Public Affairs.