let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu. "the escape artists: how obama's team fumbled the economy" of noam. joining us now is my friend jared bernstein, former chief economist and economic adviser to vice president joe biden. good morning. >> good morning. >> you have listened to as a matter of fact discussion. and you were there for all this. when you look back, how different do you think it could be? do you look back and say we did sort of the best job we could have done under the circumstances? do you think there were large missed opportunities? >> i think that more the former. a little bit of the latter. had's always missed opportunities. one thing i want to point out -- it was -- you guys touched on it in the conversation. we actually did go back to the well more than people think. i made a little list while i was sitting here. the highering act, three rounds of unemployment insurance extensions, two payroll cuts,