Remarkable performance by Orszag, who is tall, lean and analytically well worked out and polished in everything he says about economic politics, which matched our understanding of the basic model now envisioned by media and commentators but with tinkering refinements to help in projecting into the future. He is a brother of Joe Stiglitz it seems, and shared the writing of a paper with him earlier. Also, he has served Clinton and Obama, and believes Obama has a much tougher road with the extreme partisanship of today. One thing flummoxes him. He hasn't solved the fundamental restructuring problem of the economy ie the sinkhole where the middle class should be which is going global if Dan Alpert is right (Simon said Alpert is a friend of his).