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Pre-Marketing: Barclays chairman resigns

* Economist: The twilight of the central banker

* Fallout: Marcus Agius out as Barclays chairman

* Nova Spivack: Solving  Twitter’s API problem

* Farhad Manjoo: Don’t laugh at the Google glasses

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares climb and the Nikkei ends flat.

* Big deal 1: Bristol Myers buying Amilyn for $5.3 billion

* Deal deal 2: Linde buying Lincare for $4.6 billion

* John Hudson: Energy independence is a farce

* Foreign Policy: 10 reasons countries collapse

* SCOTUSblog: After a decade, an overnight sensation

* BoA-Countrywide: “The worst deal in the history of American finance.”

* Simon Johnson: 3 more governance questions for the New York Fed

* Non-zombies: What early-stage biotech VCs are still active?

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* Debt remains legal: Judge strikes down part of Obama’s for-profit college rules