The guy is good. In particular, he’s developing that trick where you answer a question and then…stop. No babbling. He also argues, as fairly few Daily Show guests do, that “the banking crisis is crucial to these next few years. But when you go out over time, over five, ten, fifteen years, the thing that’s driving our fiscal future is the rate at which health care costs grow.” Here’s Part 1:

And part 2:

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.