- It looks like Barack Obama has narrowed down his Treasury Secretary choices to abrasive ex-Clintonite Larry Summers and New York Federal Reserve Chairman Timothy Geithner. [Politico]
- President-elect Obama will meet with his team of economic advisors today and then talk to the press, but he probably won't be making any major personnel announcements. [Reuters]
- Oh super: Rahm Emanuel served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac for 15 months between 2000 and 2001. (Republicans eagerly investigate whether William Ayers was ever on this board.) [ABC News]
- The engine fueling economic stability in California -- the gay wedding industry, natch -- came to a grinding halt on Tuesday. We smell a bailout in the works! [New York Times]
- A suicide bomber, possibly female, struck at a market in North Ossetia, killing 12. [CNN]
- Henry Waxman is angling to steal John Dingell's chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but Dingell will not go easily. [The Hill]
