peHUB First Read

* FDIC chief Sheila Bair tells PE bigs to stop "howling" * PIMCO's Bill Gross: Can you get out of a debt crisis by adding more debt? * Josh Kopelman on online shopping: "We’ve seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years." * Morning Call: Wall Street futures are mixed ahead of the February ADP jobs report, London falls early, European shares briefly turn positive, the Nikkei gains 0.3% and Hong Kong shares slip. * Wisconsin has more bars than grocery stores * Delaware broadens standards for poison pills * Mark Hulbert: More often than not, the insiders get it right * Brad Feld on the proliferation of standardized seed financing docs * M&A attorney Spencer Klein: "Pent-up demand for corporate assets Is getting greater." * Starbucks will let you carry a gun into its stores, so long as you live in an open carry state. Seems like a marketing opportunity for PE-backed Dunkin' Donuts: "America stays safe on Dunkin'"