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* Walter Kirn: The art of the deal as entertainment * Jalak Jobanputra: Fashion is the new black online * Jill Priluck: How boutique I-banks could benefit from Wall Street reform * Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares slip, the Nikkei edges higher and Shanghai keeps rising. * Michael Santoli: Why KKR stock is cheap * Jon Karlen: China will eat our lunch in cleantech, if we're not careful * GIC: World recession could come "sooner than expected" * Chart of the Day: Top 10 countries by robots per capita * Tony Hayward may walk away with $18 million. Imagine if he'd been competent... * Tim Geithner backed Elizabeth Warren during a Sunday morning interview. To me, it sounded like: "The White House has already made it's decision and I lost. No need to gripe about it publicly."

* Ann Handley: 7 business lessons from a lemonade stand * Chutzpah: "Placement agent" Al Villalobos says he plans to sue CalPERS * Blog wisdom: Old Spice's ad campaign is brilliant. Reality: Old Spice sales are down since it began. * Morning Call: U.S. futures signal rebound, London rises early, European shares climb and the Nikkei keeps sliding. * Michael Corkery: The great credit rating wimp-out * Is Julian Robertson planning to reopen his Tiger Management hedge fund? * Mark Gimein: Priceline survives despite its "name your own price" gimmick, not because of it. * The FCC reports that all is not well in the U.S. broadband market. As expected, broadband providers trash the FCC.

* R.I.P. Nexus One: 2010-2010 * Mark Humphery-Jenner: Why do large private equity funds earn lower returns? * Chris Dixon pushes back against forecasts of a seed-fund crash, saying that salvation comes in the form of smarter entrepreneurs. * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher on Apple results, London rises early, European shares surge and the Nikkei dips. * FINS: The perfect M&A resume * Luke Timmerman: How biotech startups are learning to pinch pennies. * PIMCO begins selling black swan insurance. Does Nassim Taleb get royalties? * Europe's attempts to regulate alternative investments slogs on, with new draft language now available. * Facebook lawyer says he's "unsure" if Mark Zuckerberg signed away 83% of the company back in 2003. * After Obama signs the financial reform bill today, he plans to shift his attention toward housing policy. More specifically, he may reverse (or at least reduce) his predecessors' emphasis on home ownership. * Union Square Ventures threw a fundraiser for Chuck Schumer, who told them that "comprehensive immigration reform" would pass in 2011. To USV's Fred Wilson, that means startup visas and more H1B visas. To me, it just means Schumer was telling supporters what they wanted to hear.

* Ron Resnick: Why no restrictions on leverage? * How the financial reform bill could sting GE Capital * James Mann: Corporate America turns against China * Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London opens flat, European shares keep skidding and the Nikkei drops 1.2%. * Bijan Sabet: Should startups bring on strategic investors? * 10 super-successful co-founders, and why their partnerships worked * Two VC-backed startups aim to change the economics of vaccine productions * The Big Money has launched a new blog called Cash Crop, about the big business of marijuana * Doug Kass: "Before Sunday, I had never met Nouriel Roubini. I came away from yesterday's lecture not learning more than when I entered but thinking that he is more well-intentioned and perhaps even more studious than I previously thought."

* Paul Volcker discusses his financial reform bill battles * KKR learned several flotation lessons from Blackstone Group * Roger Altman: "The poisonous dynamic between Washington and business must be fixed. Both sides should make adjustments, but the business community — of which I am a proud member — especially needs to make efforts to mend this relationship. Yes, the administration has made some mistakes. But, on balance, its actions have supported business." * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London falls early, European shares slip and the Nikkei is closed. * Mark Suster: What's really going on in the VC industry? * Charlie Gasparino: Lloyd Blankfein's days are numbered * John Paulson is in the "driver's seat" for an upcoming Harrah's IPO * Facebook co-founder says upcoming movie overplays sex & booze * Dan Frommer: Nokia's refusal to buy Palm may be one of the dumbest moves in handset history * Audio of interview with Bob Davoli of Sigma Partners. Includes some discussion of GlassHouse (in registration), Aprimo (filing soon) and Incipient (VC-backed bust).

* Felix Salmon: How well is Goldman Sachs trading its IPO clients? * Marshall Kirkpatrick: How Old Spice is making all of these viral videos * Foursquare's founders took home $4.6 million of the company's recent $20 million funding round. Way to make money before the company does... * Morning Call: U.S. futures rise on J.P. Morgan earnings, London falls early, European shares dip and the Nikkei loses 1.1 percent. * Wilbur Ross moves into healthcare * Evan Newmark: Summer rally makes a fool of Wall Street * Tupperwear in India: How to effectively adapt a biz model to an emerging market * Chinese micro-blogging sites have become the latest target of Beijing’s internet police * Now that the Boss has passed, might the Dolans try buying the Yankees? As a BoSox fan, I can only hope...

* John Boyd: Later-stage implications of the seed-stage land rush * Kit Roane: 4 reasons why Texas had a better recession than California * So much for amicable: Larry Schloss, new CIO of New York City, has sued his former partners at Diamond Castle Holdings for $10 million. * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher on Intel results, London falls early, European shares slip on financials and the Nikkei climbs. * Wrap-up of MobileBeat 2010 * Steve Spillman: Twitter needs to rethink its retweet * Text of Jeff Bezos' graduation speech at Princeton * Rob May: Why entrepreneurs should want VCs who ask tough questions * Hank Paulson supports the financial reform bill. After some arm-twisting, so does Scott Brown. * Saboteur? One of those Russian spies worked at Microsoft. Is it possible he was responsible for all the Windows glitches?

* Alan Patricof: Our long, hard fundraising slog * Andrea Belz: Is venture capital becoming an academic pursuit? * John Nichols: Is the financial reform bill "socialist?" Not according to socialists. * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London rises early, European shares climb on earnings optimism and the Nikkei slips on China concerns. * The past year's ten best European PE pros * NY Fed report on the shadow banking system (.pdf) * Family offices increase private equity exposure, post-crisis * Tax break: BP apparently plans to write off the $10 billion or so it's spent on the Gulf oil leak * A New York man claims he owns 84% of Facebook, and gets a court order to stop the social network for transferring shares. And this guy knows courtrooms. Last year he was sued by NY AG Andrew Cuomo for failing to deliver some $200k worth of pre-ordered wood pellets. Maybe Facebook could just get into the home heating biz, and everyone would win...

* What BP could learn from LeBron * Barry Ritholtz on corporate America's pile o'cash * Patrick Thibodeau: 5 reasons why China will rule tech * Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London rises early, European shares dip and the Nikkei slides. * Hey Atlanta: Get your peHUB Shindig tickets * To sue or not to sue, when facing bias at work * KKR has a new plan for natural gas, as LBOs dry up * Sarah Hartenbaum: A primer on Groupon-like startups * Elon Musk takes on Owen Thomas. Owen Thomas responds.

* Mark Geimen asks which is worse: Inflation of deflation? * Jon Karlen: Capital efficiency in cleantech, and why Vinod Khosla is wrong * Heidi Moore: Endowments and pension funds aren't getting enough blame for enabling Wall Street excess. * Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London rises early on miners, European shares extend rally and the Nikkei climbs. * Google and China are back in business together * McKinsey: The five types of successful acquisitions * Las Vegas tries to make its glitz more energy-efficient * Economist: Attempts to ban online gambling are doomed * Bill Gurley: Will Google's deeper vertical integration lead to higher revenue?