Pre-Marketing: Is today Cordray’s day?

* RIP Bill Carey: Remembering a biz school benefactor

* Better mileage? Woman sues Honda in small claims court

* Rocky Agrawal: Uber passes econ test, fails marketing 101

* Morning Call: U.S. futures signal mixed open, London falls early, European shares retreat and the Nikkei gains 1.2%.

* Izabella Kaminska: Pawnbrokers of last resort

* One-liners: What we learned in 2011

* Shirley Wang: Why placebos work wonders

* $215 million: TiVo cashes in with AT&T settlement

* I’m hearing this too: Yahoo poised to name new CEO

* Get Term Sheet: Sign up for my daily email on deals & deal-makers

* Robert Johnson: A look inside Lakewood, N.J.’s homeless “tent city”