Many of you wrote in to point out the mathematical error in Chris Matthews take on the economy. But that might have been a transcript error on my part. I wrote:

MATTHEWS: And that people at the top because of the tax breaks they got under Bush, and because of the way the economy is just geared right now, the working stiff out there, making 30 or 40 a year, is not getting a raise, they’re working as hard as ever