your questions for author and national review editor richard brookhiezer. his book he'll take your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets sunday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> the atlantic magazine recently held a summit here in washington. among the guest speakers was robert reuben who served as treasury secretary. he spoke about the pressing need for an agreement on reducing the debt. the progress wouldn't come until after the november elections. >>> welcome to the economy summ summit. thank you for being here. i'm going to resist asking you my first question what that choke was that you just shared. >> i suggested that you ask the first question which is a better fly fisherman. paul or me? >> and his answer? >> we each had a different answer. i said me, and he said he. >> i think this is an interesting time to be having a conversation about the economy because how much has changed in terms of the perception of the landscape. if we were having this conversation at the end of december or january, it would have been darkness all around. the euro was o