[O]nly 1,000 jobs were added to non-farm payrolls in the last month of 2003, when economists were expecting employers to create 148,000 new jobs.

In response to the news the markets fainted away in what a spokesman termed, “a case of the vapors.”

Update: Atrios points out that if the numbers from previous months hadn’t also been adjusted today the report would have read 50,000 jobs lost last month.

Huh.