* Barry Ritholtz: Why @GSELevator is a fake
* Ablan & Goldstein: The twilight of the Bond King
* Jonathan Weil: Credit Suisse had world’s dumbest traders
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares sink and the Nikkei slips.
* Yves Smith: 12 reasons to hate the mortgage settlement
* Oh come on: Banks now charging customers to close accounts
* Noam Scheiber: Inside story of Obama’s debt ceiling debacle
* Michael Wolff: Are Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg vying for the FT
* Matt Rosoff: Why Google’s foray into hardware will be a disaster
* Hmmm: Seems that a MarketWatch columnist moonlights as a white nationalist
* Tweet of the Day: @paul_s_68 PE honchos are everywhere: Jonathan Nelson (Providence) is left of Giselle during her famous rant.