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Pre-Marketing: Silicon Valley heat

* Mitt Romney: What I learned at Bain Capital

* Alexia Tsotsis: Siri is the new Clippy

* VC valuation in Silicon Valley: Up. WAY up.

* What now? Plan B for curbing money market funds

* Morning Call: U.S. futures look flatEuropean shares unchanged and the Nikkei retreats.

* Looking east: Japan is facing its own fiscal cliff

* Ben Kesling: Tootsie Roll’s secret empire

* Simon Johnson: Why does Wall Street always win?

* Graph of the Day: 60 years of American economic history

* Mark Gongloff: CNBC thinks shrinking middle class is awesome

* Reuniting with Ross? News Corp. digital chief Jon Miller leaves

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* Dave McClure unleashed: “VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid.