* What Amazon fears most: Diapers
* Michael Milken: Toward a new American century
* Warren Buffett: I don’t buy from private equity firms, because they “don’t know the business”
* Morning Call: U.S. futures down ahead of jobs report, London falls early, European shares slide and the Nikkei loses 1% on yen strength.
* It’s a bad time to be named Justin Bieber
* The uncertainties of pay-for-performance
* The dividend recap train keeps a’ rolling, all year long
* Tom DiNapoli: Hevesi’s guilty plea helps me in November
* The Twitterati very much mind The Gap
* Potash CEO: BHP offer is a “non-starter”
* It’s not every day that Paul Krugman writes a column praising NJ Gov Chris Christie
* Apparently it’s been lean times for actor Larry Wilcox (a.k.a. Jon Baker) since CHiPS went off the air. The SEC has charged him with securities fraud. On the 70’s TV flip-side, Larry Hagman won an arbitration hearing against Citi.