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Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

I won’t mention that gold is ripping through a new high of $1300 this morning.  OK, just this once.  (CNNMoney)

The tax cut debate is off the table – pushed back til after November mid-terms.  (Bloomberg)

David Weidner on the Wall Street to Washington to Academia career conveyor belt.  (WSJ)

John Carney: Geithner is Toast.  (NetNet)

Zuckerberg’s gift of $100 million to Newark schools is wonderful, leave the kid alone.  (FelixSalmon)

Not-so-hot-lately fund manager John Paulson gets some props on the Forbes 400 list.  (Dealbreaker)

2010 has been a good year for drug approvals so far.  (ResearchRecap)

Kid Dynamite sorts through the GOP’s Pledge to America so you don’t have to.  (KidDynamite)

Slumlord!:  “Fannie and Freddie have already taken back nearly as many homes in the first half of 2010 as they did during all of 2009!”  (TheBasisPoint)

The case against Mark Zandi for the White House economic advisor post.  (TBP)

How fares the crumbling of our empire?  Let me count the ways – a data-loaded rundown of everything that sucks right now:  (ZeroHedge)

Incredible:  The stars of Goodfellas discuss the film on its 20th anniversary.  Must-read.  (GQ)

and that’s how you do a linkfest.

-the management