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Breakfast Links: June 6, 2011

— Peter Diamond withdraws from consideration to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

— Barack Obama’s failure to get these Fed seats filled with good people in a timely way may have been his administration’s biggest mistake.

— When the labor market’s healthy, people feel free to quit their jobs giving workers the best form of bargaining power around.

— France bans the words “Twitter” and “Facebook” from television.

— Nonviolent protestors in Golan Heights get shot by IDF troops.

— For-profit charter school operators lobbying to undue oversight.

— Interview with Pakistani Viper pilot.

— Famous Delaware politicians throughout history (a short list).

— Innovation is coming to UK higher education, and the general thrust seems to be to make college more expensive.

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