Hot Links: Contained Depression & the Facebook Executions

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

When Mergers Attack – how a long/short trader copes with the unexpected.  (DynamicHedge)

Hear the one about the list of teenagers on Facebook being executed in Colombia?  (CNN)

On talent, practice and skill development.  (AbnormalReturns)

Vigna/Hussman on the potential for a coming dollar collapse.  (MarketTalk)

William Cohan checks in with Dick Fuld in exile.  (Fortune)

The structural vs cyclical unemployment camps take shape.  (FelixSalmon)

Deflation or a “Contained Depression”?  (Mish)

Should Dell or anyone else even bother getting into the smartphone game against Apple right now?  (LeighDrogen)

Russia’s economy is basically a Mafia environment in stasis…for now.  (StreetwiseProfessor)

If historical events had Facebook statuses (hat tip zerobeta).  (CoolMaterial)