Plenty of shoe leather went into Jackie Calmes’ account in The New York Times last week of the simmering tensions among the five top economic advisers to President Barack Obama – “several dozen interviews with administration officials and others familiar with the internal debates.” The story even included a little map of the White House grounds showing the locations of the offices of Christina Romer (chair of the Council of Economic Advisers) and budget chief Peter Orszag in the Old Executive Office Building; of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in the grand old Treasury Building across the lawn, and in the White House complex itself, with head of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, “the only top economic adviser with a West Wing office.”