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* Sarah Lacy: Yahoo needs to buy something big
* He’s ba-ack: Greg Smith promises inside peek at Goldman Sachs
* Vinod Khosla: Sympathy for overhyped Y Combinator startups
* Morning Call: U.S. futures fall ahead of Fed, European shares slide and the Nikkei climbs.
* CEOs: Post election, fix the debt
* Andrew Nusca: Apple’s era of secrecy is over
* Big deal: BAE Systems and EADS consider merger
* Pink slip prompt: Solar start-up loses core investor
* Consumer cop on the beat: Aggressive start for CFPB
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* Happy holidays: Investors ready for wave of European corporate bonds
* Tweet of the Day: @pegobry Now that Bezos worship is becoming mainstream, I’m starting to doubt myself on it.