* Uh-oh: Zynga’s Q2 numbers are even worse than they look
* Felix Salmon: How macroeconomic statistics failed the U.S.
* Credit crunch: Banks wary of financing big infrastructure projects
* Morning Call: U.S. futures are mixed, London falls early, European shares retreat and the Nikkei edges higher.
* Wells Fargo: Consumer confidence remains MIA
* Related: Best Buy plans to cut its holiday hiring in half
* Mark Gongloff: RIM rallies on magic unicorn rescue
* Chopsticks: Piano maker pops poison pill
* Happy pink slip day? Hallmark launches line of job loss cards
* Benny Evangelista: LinkedIn’s Obama visit “coup of enormous value”
* Q&A: An expert on experts talks about how to spot the bad ones
* It’s coming: VCs say to expect shakeout of seed-funded companies
* Paul Farrell: Top hedge fund mixes Ayn Rand, behavioral psych
* Line of the Day, from Monica Hesse: “The Dorito is the intersection of taste and shame.”