Tuesday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

At 9:00 a.m. EDT, Obama is taking a break from his vacation to announce that he's reappointing Ben Bernanke as Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank. That does require Senate confirmation.

Between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., we're going to get a slew of numbers about the budget -- and the budget deficit and our national debt. Both the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will be releasing data on the budget.

So, that's the early part of the morning on the East Coast. We'll see what happens with the rest of the day...