Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  Good luck out there today.

Occupy Wall Street gets evicted from Zuccotti Park.  (WSJ, Business Insider, Bloomberg)

Why the $VXX bulls may be in for a rough time.  (Tyler’s Trading)

Five risks headed into 2012.  (Pragmatic Capitalism)

The credit crunch has arrived in Europe.  (Money Game)

There is only so much debt the world can monetize.  (Global Macro Monitor)

According to this theory Congressional insider trading is illegal.  (Economist’s View)

On the prospects for a US recession in 2012.  (FRBSF)

The President in 2013 is going to have his hands full.  (FT Alphaville)

On the death of the tech spec.  (TechCrunch, Daring Fireball)

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