* The Economist: Shame on the GOP
* Steven Greenhouse: The wageless, profitable recovery
* Kauffman Foundation: New companies are creating fewer jobs, since even before the Great Recession
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London opens soft, crude prices fall and the Nikkei retreats.
* Ec0nomists: We got the jobs numbers wrong because…
* Julia La Roche: Meet the Wall Street summer intern DJ
* Nikesh Parekh: Cleantech-less in Seattle
* Scott Kirsner: Tracking e-clues of likely job changers
* Charles Kenny: Be patriotic by hiring an illegal immigrant
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* Eric Dash: Weak Q2 numbers expected from Wall Street banks
* Mark Suster: Why I’m doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem
* Paul Boutin: How Google+ will Balkanize your social life (in a good way)
* Gary Rivlin: How Wall Street is buying off Washington, and killing reform
* Tweet of Friday: @jdickerson “Today’s jobs report was delivered to White House doorstep in a brown paper bag and on fire”
* Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz, on investing in a grilled-cheese restaurant: “Life would be boring if you kept investing in things you’d done before.”