* UnclearWire: Sprint & Softbank weigh alternatives

* Too big to pass: Brown-Vitter bank bill struggling to find support

* Morning Call: U.S. futures climb, Europe falls and Japan jumps.

* Jeff Elder: Mary Meeker’s mobile misinformation has consequences

* Mary Meeker: It wasn’t misinformation

* Jason Zweig: What’s eating munis?

* Big deal: IHS buying CarFax for $1.4 billion

* Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman: I have no desire to retire

* Paul Krugman: Politicians must shake off economic fatalism

* Shades: Google Glass banned at Google shareholder meeting

* Uh oh: SEC counsel faces whistle-blower charge from last job

* Kenny Suleimanagich: Kodak’s problem child

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* Jonathan Alter: Did hipster tech really save the Obama campaign?

* Joe Weisenthal: Chinese trade collapsed because old numbers were a sham

* Tweet of the Day: @hunterwalk: We’re surprised we can’t trust our govt despite our use of Snapchat being driven by feeling we can’t even trust our friends