peHUB First Read

* Can planes fly on coal? * Ben Horowitz: Stop asking if people will scale * Barry Ritholtz: How likely is a repeat of 1987? * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London rises early, European shares climb and the Nikkei flattens. * Wilbur Ross sees more bank rollups on the horizon * TIAA-CREF gets into the endowment management biz * Congressional Dems may introduce their carried interest tax change bill today * "Mayors" of Starbucks now get discounts nationwide. Pretty sure "mayors" of Dunkin' Donuts just get stared at. * The Short List: The Boston Globe shaved its annual list of the 100 best-performing public companies in Massachusetts to just 82 companies.