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Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…

JPMorgan now controls 80 to 90% of all copper on the LME.  How could that go wrong?  (MarketWatch)

Could Facebook save California?  (trick question: nothing can save California).  (PaulKedrosky)

Stormtroopers and the structural unemployment that resulted from the Death Star’s destruction.  (EconomistsDoItWithModels)

Mark Hurd thought he was off the hook – and then the SEC got involved.  (NYT)

Rich Karlgaard: In finance, as in fitness, it’s all about the ratios.  (Forbes)

How ETFs plan to raise their next trillion – single-stock ETFs!  Is anything dumber?  Probs not.  (TBP)

My friend Adam Warner with a guest column at Barron’s on the low VIX reading.  (DailyOptionsReport)

Close this Spider-Man musical before someone dies.  It’s just not good enough to justify death.  (NYP)

Michael Bigger: Crocs could get big.  Stoopid big.  (BiggerCapital)

How The Fly is positioned into year-end and some takeover targets.  (iBankCoin)

This morning’s The Good Leads (WSJFA)