Pre-Marketing: LivingSocial reconsiders IPO

* No go IPO? LivingSocial plots its next move

* Charlie Gasparino: The Wall Street whiners

* Jeremy Grantham: “No market for young men”

* Will work for Touchpads: Meg Whitman considered for top HP spot

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares tumble and the Nikkei plunges.

* Hope Yen: The recession’s lost generation

* Jack Hough: What investors and NFL coaches have in common

* End of the world as we know it: REM calls it a day

* Gene Sperling: Buffett Rule facts and fictions (from the White House POV, natch)

* Semi-related: Buffett’s dad was the Ron Paul of his day

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* Stacey Higgenbotham: Congress doesn’t get Google, and it doesn’t get Congress

* Tweet of the Day: @robhof Anyone done a psychosocial comparison of cults and tech startups?

* WSJ says the “Volcker Rule may lose its bite.” That’s saying something, since the current Volcker rule already is much weaker what than its namesake had originally proposed.