Got this from Dollars and Sense…
A dark night, a mysterious dame and a gumshoe looking for clues in the case of the vanishing wages
Ha! In addition to being on the mark, this column by Jared Bernstein is funny, too!

She had a neckline as low as the Nasdaq in ‘01, curves like sine waves and a dress tighter than the global oil supply. She had my attention even before she pulled out two reports I’d seen that very morning.

“I’m sorry to barge in on you like this,” she said in a voice that gave my calculator a power surge. “I didn’t know where else to turn.”

“You came to the right place, doll,” I said. “I see you’ve got the first-quarter GDP report, along with the new compensation results.” I’d been puzzling over these numbers all day, but what, I wondered, could this tall glass of ice water want with them?

“That’s right,” she purred. “I need to know why GDP is up 4.8%, the strongest quarter since 2003, yet real wages are falling.” Yeah, I thought, you and everybody else who works for a living.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-bernstein7may07,0,4131549.story