The Bloomberg article I linked to includes the 90 percent assertion. Last week, manufacturing fell to under 10 percent for the first time ever. I don't have the stat for agriculture handy, but my recollection is that it is now a tiny fraction of the overall economy. I'll dig around.

I was hospitalized for pneumonia a week ago Saturday -- released after two days, and then sloooooooowly regained strength over the intervening week. My apologies!

The copy desk just informed me that we already ran this! I blame the lingering effects of pneumonia. I am clearly still not ready for prime time.

Not Kermit? All these years I've lived under such a misapprehension. A very quick web search offers no clarity, so I have changed the wording.

Thank you.

A copy and paste error led to the wrong link for interstellar trade.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

And I had forgotten (or never knew) about Proxmire's opposition to NASA! Which of course makes the joke even better.

that was an error and I'll correct it.

My mistake, from spending too much time in parts of the blogosphere, where the term "shrill" has been used ironically for some time now to refer to people like Krugman, who have turned out to be completely right in their analysis, but were originally labeled as "shrill" by the right wing.

Brad DeLong is the leader of this ironic reversal brigade. I should have provided a link.

apologies -- i confused the date of the obit with the date of his death. thanks for the correction.

I honor your service (and I added your comment to the original post).

I have updated the post to note that the original post turns out to be a joke.

there may not be 20,000 priuses in berkeley, but a couple of days ago I counted sixteen while walking the two blocks between my house and the nearest supermarket. I do believe they are breeding independently.

All the rest of that post is true, by the way.

sorry about that. i'll fix.

the comment pointing out my error on sunstein appeared in the comments on a different post altogether, sorry for any confusion.

I called him an economist. As a reader in a different thread points out -- he is a law professor. I've fixed the error.

This thread is just too good.

yet another million/billion error, and Kessell is energy minister, not finance. The post has been corrected.

What do I consider a long bike ride?

The Grizzly Peak Century, two weeks from yesterday, is 112 miles this year. I consider that a long bike ride.

p.s. this is a great thread. maybe i'll go out and do some weeding tomorrow.

http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/09/population_and_diet/

They are not easy to find, because so they are so DARN small!

Management regrets the error.

It worked when I first posted the story. The Senate is very bad at keeping consistent links up.

It's fixed. And as one reader has already noted, Greenberger's testimony can be found here:

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/IMGJune3Testimony0.pdf

DocGonzo -- I'm sorry, but not only did you not read my post very carefully, but you haven't been paying attention to Salon's coverage. Because I've written about Gramm's sins twice in Salon in the last two weeks, and this particular post references those issues AND links to one of those two posts. Sheesh.

it is quoted in the CIBC study, and the Kingsley post attributes to CERA... Daniel Yergin's oil analysis outfit.

ouch. corrected.

I am touched by the concern about my health, so just for the record:

Even though I was hospitalized for pneumonia in February, I trained like a madman ever since, and just two weeks ago completed the infamous California "death ride" bicycle endurance event in the high Sierras. www.deathride.com.

i'm feeling much better now.

don't know what happened to it, but it's back now.

i think bernie sanders is great, and his point about the bailout right on, which is why i pointed it out.

but if you don't think it's funny that jim demint and bernie sanders, who could not possibly be further apart on the political spectrum, agree on this issue, well, sorry.

i apologize. trying to work too quickly

but i think it got the gist right.

I was out of town over the weekend and for time-management purposes decided to only monitor the comments posted this week, so I missed that on

When the GOVERNOR of NEW YORK, who had in, my opinion, been doing a great job tackling Wall Street excess, is forced to resign because of criminal acts that he himself made a big deal of cracking down as attorney general, that is a BIG DISGRACE.

I make no claim about whether he was a better or worse person that Blodget, but Spitzer really, really blew it. Such stupidity and arrogance from a person with so much power, is, in my mind, a real tragedy. As I wrote at the time in the piece I linked to in my post.

millions billions shmillions. who's counting? it's BAD.

i've corrected it. more coffee is clearly necessary.

and the explanations are much appreciated

Ouch. Thanks for the correction.

i'm loving the responses here.

i would just note that I too have made exactly the same arguments about saturday night special etc. but there's also no question that sweet home alabama was embraced by some serious assholes in the region I grew up in...

sorry for the confusion folks.

Hello, this is Andrew Leonard's daughter. We read the hobbit six years ago.

I goofed, and confused one LIBOR-related credit spread metric with another. Embarrassing.

As for fact-checking -- the blogosphere takes care of its on that regard, I'm afraid.