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Wal-Mart: Scoop or No Scoop?


Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 4:49pm

An editor at the Albany Times Union has publicly taken me to task for claiming that Marc Gunther's story about Wal-Mart's planned sustainability index is a "scoop." Casey Seiler points me (and readers of Romenesko) to a front-page story that the Times Union ran back in April and seems to think that: a) there is substant

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

Wonk Watch: 7.16.09

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 2:54pm

Brad DeLong posted an item today confronting one of life's greatest frustrations: interpreting statistics from the Labor Department. The figure in question is the number of U.S. workers who filed new jobless claims last week. The number is low—if you can call the seasonally adjusted figure 522,000 low—enough. In fact, it's the smallest number of new unemployment claims since January. Great news, right? Well, not so fast.

  • Amy Tennery is a proud former intern of The Big Money. She is currently an editorial assistant at The Real Deal and can be reached at at@therealdeal.com.

Microsoft Has an Ad That Works


Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 11:49am

CNET reports on an anecdote from a Microsoft (MSFT) executive who says that Apple (AAPL) has demanded that Microsoft pull an ad in which a shopper looks at some Macs and says that you can't get one for less than $1,000. Microsoft takes credit for getting Apple to drop its prices and says gleefully that it'll keep running versions of the "Laptop Hunters" commercial.

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