Wednesday, August 20, 2003 The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories. Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.

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Newscast Stories From New York: Judy Martin explores implications for business investment in Iraq following Tuesday’s bombing in Baghdad. From Washington: John Dimsdale examines what’s behind the federal government’s record red ink reported Tuesday in its deficit update -- problem is, next year’s bad too. From Los Angeles: Heidi Pickman looks at what the federal government is doing with all of its unused office space. From New York: Bob Moon has details on a regional estimate for the costs involved in last week’s Northeastern power outage: the costs are fairly small, relatively speaking. From Beijing: Jocelyn Ford reports that China has made a bold move by opening previously closed capital markets to foreign investors -- and today, Citigroup made a move of its own. From Nottingham, England: Martin Stott has news of British mortgage applicants undergoing lie detector tests. From New York: Ashley Milne-Tyte explains why implementation of a new law to stop unwanted faxes has been delayed until January. From Baghdad: Borzou Daragahi says that Tuesday’s UN headquarters bombing in Iraq may hurt development programs. From Washington, DC: John Dimsdale finds that a new poll shows that Americans think teachers’ pay is too low -- and that there’s growing support for attracting better teachers with better salaries. Features Why members of Congress will vote against FCC Today, the Federal Communications Commission discusses its plans to review new media ownership rules that have been under attack by lawmakers. In this edition of “The Public's Business,” Marketplace commentator Robert Reich looks at what all of the fuss is about.

Germans reject economists that recommend less vacation Imagine getting two months off of work. Most German workers have that luxury now, but how long will it last? Kyle James reports that some economists are saying it's time for Germany to do a reality check and get in sync with other countries.