peHUB First Read

* The pros and cons of guaranteed bonuses. * Who's to blame for Rosetta Stone's scuttled stock sale? * Want to ask Tim Geithner a question? Well, he'll be doing a Q&A this Thursday via Digg (and via moderator Alan Murray), and you can submit your questions here. In the meantime, Ritholtz has cherry-picked some of the more ridiculous ones. * Morning Call: U.S. markets point higher, London rises early, European shares rebound, the Nikkei inches up and China and Hong Kong markets partially recover. * Citadel is trying to set up a leveraged loan trading unit, but apparently got rebuffed by the Barclays team it wanted to poach. Better act fast Citadel, before those loans hit 50 cents on the dollar. * Corporate cannibalization: For a company to grow, it is sometimes best to chew off its own arm. * Informal Survey: Only 41% of institutional investors made new private equity commitments in H1 '09. * Ron Conway reorganizes his angel empire around the concept of real-time data. * Long after the nanotech hype has subsided, the technology is being quietly incorporated into our everyday lives. Here's to you, Mr. Jurvetson...