The Morning Meeting

These days our morning talk can sound like a morning business program. Our business editor is talking about bank consolidation and job losses, slumping retail sales (all but WalMart) and stock futures, and (perhaps most interesting) mortgage rates. There is a rush to refinance and a Treasury plan floated to lower interest rates for mortgage holders. The other big money story today, of course, involves the return to Capitol Hill of the Big Three CEOs. What will they tell lawmakers? Will they get any more sympathy than they engendered two weeks ago? In other news, fortress Fallujah breached by car bombers in Iraq, we learn more about the surviving Mumbai attacker, and a deadly cholera outbreak spreads in the nation perhaps least equipped to handle it. That’s Zimbabwe. It’s also one of the most difficult places in the world for journalists to do their work. We’re doing what we can to get the story, and get it you. Stay tuned…