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* Euro crisis: Ever-deepening democratic deficit

* Matt Levine: About those Facebook short sales

* Ndubuisi Ekekwe: When you can’t innovate, copy

* Big deal: Marubeni buying Gavilon for $3.6 billion

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higherEuropean share pare back gains and the Nikkei climbs.

* Hope they have a good lawyer: Dewey & LeBoeuf files for bankruptcy

* Derek Thompson: The new economics of happiness

* Moody’s: Big warning on European LBO defaults

* In a flash: Zulily builds a shipping arm in 8 weeks

* Into the light: Shadow banking system has halved since 2008

* Edwardo Saverin talks: Full interview in PortugueseExcerpts in English.

* We’re safe? Maya mural found, contradicts 2012 “doomsday” myth

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* Harry Shearer: Could New York be more wrong about New Orleans?

* Anecdotally, it’s what I’m seeing: Spring revival for america’s housing market