* Your guide to the acronyms of financial reform
* Sarah Lacy: Is Silicon Valley falling out of love with options?
* Steven Davidoff: Behind the increasing number of tender offers
* Mike Bloomberg says he’ll “stick by” pal Steve Rattner, including as a financial advisor. Guess it doesn’t matter that Rattner (still allegedly) was a participant in defrauding a public pension system, or that the SEC wants him temporarily banned from the securities market. Wonder if Bloomberg still believes the charges against Rattner are “ridiculous.”
* Morning Call: U.S. futures are mixed ahead of GE (GE) and Matel (MAT) earnings, London falls early, European shares flatten and the Nikkei sheds 0.9%.
* John Sculley talks Steve Jobs
* Howard Marks sounds the “second crisis” alarm
* One year later: Revisiting toxic asset purchases
* Venture capitalists invested just $4.8 billion into U.S. companies last quarter, representing a 31% decrease from Q2. Get all the data here.
* Harvard Business School is preparing to open an Innovation Lab
* Neil Weinberg: Rattner deal will show justice is corrupt, not blind
* Is Cerberus about to profit from an automotive investment?
* Connie Loizos saves me the trouble: Why Kleiner Perkins skeptics are about to eat crow
* Tweet of the Day: @BorowitzReport: To Boost Ratings, CNN Traps Eliot Spitzer in Mine
* Tweet of the Day II: @joshk .@danprimack – You have single-handedly ruined my ability to search through my inbox for the phrase “term sheet”.
* Sequoia Capital founder Don Valentine: “Target big markets”
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