Pre-Marketing: Deficit hawk failure

* No IPO? SeaWorld is exploring sale options

* Josh Barro: Why we must go off the platinum coin cliff

* Morning Call: U.S. futures flat ahead of jobs data,  European shares fall and the Nikkei spikes.

* Survey says: Beware the bond bubble

* Fiscal cliff deal: Tech company loophole extended

* Not just Google: Self-driving cars are getting closer

* Merck CEO: Expect more pharma consolidation in 2013

* Kim Zetter: Write gambling software, go to prison

* Katie Fehrenbacher: 5 things that won’t work for cleantech in 2013

* Guilty: Oldest private Swiss bank busted for enabling U.S. tax evasion

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* Jon Birger: What I learned aboard Shell’s grounded Alaskan oil rig

* Brian Stetler: Behind Al Gore’s sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera

* Ed Bott: Why you should be skeptical of Chitika’s market-share reports

* Steve Case on sharing economy: “The new status symbol isn’t what you own–it’s what you’re smart enough not to own.”