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Peter Orszag’s Biography

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Peter Orszag is an American banker and economist and a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Lazard since May 2016. Orszag previously served as a Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup. He is also a contributing Columnist at Bloomberg View.

Prior to joining Citigroup in January 2011, Dr. Orszag served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Contributin…

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Why Your Grocery Bill Will Get Worse

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By Kathleen Kingsbury Verified, Peter Orszag
| The New York Times Verified
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Why Your Grocery Bill Will Get Worse Oct. 11, 2026, 9:00 a.m. ET Credit...Kaya & Blank for The New York Times Ms. Kingsbury leads the Opinion report for The Times. Mr. Orszag is the chief executive and chairman of the global financial firm Lazard. The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, spoke with Peter R.
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The new supply-side era: the O-ring meets geopolitics

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By Peter Orszag
| The Ballpark
This is not the supply side of the 1980s: the binding constraint is now the physical and network dependencies that a generation of globalisation wrought. Following UChicago economist Michael Kremer's O-ring logic, a single missing input can halt production far beyond it—which is why these shocks work through the economy slowly and unevenly, surfacing in prices months or years later. Both policymakers and corporate leaders need to adapt their thinking to this new era.
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The Trouble With State Capitalism

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By Jami Miscik, Peter Orszag, Theodore Bunzel
| Foreign Affairs Verified
The relationship between governments and business is fundamentally changing. As geopolitical tensions have increased and economic warfare has become central to international competition, policymakers around the world have developed new export control systems, investment screening mechanisms, and subsidization schemes to protect their markets and reshore critical industries.
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