Division of Labor

Politico runs a must-read piece on the Obama economic team and how each team member is bringing his or her own expertise to the crafting and implementation (if passed) of the stimulus bill.

Christina Romer

...She’s an expert on tracking economic outlooks and employment trends. And in a recent report, she estimated that an additional 5 million jobs could be lost this year without an economic stimulus package.

Through complex calculations, Romer aims to plot who will lose their jobs and, roughly, when. By turning those numbers inside out, however, she says she’s able to isolate the industries to target with stimulus cash to save those jobs...

Peter Orzag

...Orszag, who wrote and signed the introduction of that CBO report, will now be charged with making sure the Obama administration’s infrastructure projects are implemented quickly and efficiently.

Read the entire article here.