Pre-Marketing: Should Bloomberg buy Linkedin?

* Felix Salmon: Bloomberg should buy LinkedIn

* Ben Parr: No Felix, that’s stupid

* Mayan money: Profiting from the “end of the world”

* Bailout over: U.S. Treasury selling rest of AIG shares

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares stall and the Nikkei dips.

* Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone: “Big is the enemy of great”

* James Parker: Lights out for China’s solar power industry?

* Cowards: Why DC pols won’t enable the boom economy

* Tax disclosure timing: Did TXU sucker its bondholders?

* Post-layoffs: The Boston Zynga diaspora

* Under the bridge: U.S. patent lawsuits dominated by trolls

* Carl Thoma: The changing face of private equity

* No shots for you: Diageo out of the Jose Cuervo auction

* James Allworth: How corruption is strangling innovation

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* Tweet of the Day: @jbarro In general, the louder an industry complains about a policy, the fewer negative impacts that policy has on the broader economy.