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* Private equity's most famous breakups * Don Peck: How a new jobless era will transform America * Andrew Ross Sorkin on why it's been so hard to sue the credit rating agencies that signed off -- or gave glowing "opinions" -- on those bubbly subprime bundles. * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London rises early on banks, European shares climb and the Nikkei gains 0.2 percent. * Hank Paulson's proposed bank fix * David Skok: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior * Rob Go calls Harrison Metal Capital "the hottest VC no one has ever heard of." * Remember that hand gesture-based interface used by Tom Cruise in Minority Report? Well, the folks who created it for the film are now tryingt to create it for real. * When Fox News runs out of living politicians to bash Obama's economic policies, it turns to people dressed up as dead ones.