* David Rohde: Meet America’s good bank
* Niall Ferguson: Oops. Paul Krugman was right
* Josh Brown: Wall Street’s Jean Valjean problem
* Bust: Mark Cuban’s sports-betting hedge fund idea collapses
* Yves Smith: ProPublica’s off-base charges about Freddie Mac
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London rises early, European shares climb and the Nikkei closes flat.
* Buh-bye: Three founders are out at Demand Media
* Vladimir Putin: Russia needs more tech, less corruption
* Stalling: House group seeks delay in PE registration deadline
* Never back smug: A lesson for life sciences from Newt Gingrich
* Rana Foroohar: Are companies more powerful than countries?
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* Tweet of the Day: @dshen: with the facebook IPO this week, i predict a huge wave of angel funding approximately 6 months from now
* Tweet of the Day II: Hobokenhomefind #Corzine condo for sale at Maxwell in #Hoboken. Heading over to look for missing $1.2billion in the sofa cushions.