Good morning. And once the election is out of the way, the good times start! (if history is a good guide, that is)

http://www.businessinsider.com/monday-scouting-report-november-3-2014-2014-11

Commodities and Ebola. Not a big risk, yet

http://www.businessinsider.com/ebola-commodities-map-2014-11

Interesting question “When island nations drown, who owns their seas?”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/18/when-island-nations-drown-who-owns-their-seas/hyH9W5b1mCAyTVgwlFh7qO/story.html

“The impact of the maturity of US government debt on forward rates and the term premium”

http://www.voxeu.org/article/government-debt-and-term-premium-new-results-old-data

Best of last week. Just one click away

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/10/31/best-in-economics-this-week-october-31/

A lot of charts showing that European stocks are cheap

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-01/morgan-stanleys-european-equity-strategy-data-gallery

Paris. For all your internet start-ups

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/upshot/why-the-us-has-fallen-behind-in-internet-speed-and-affordability.html

Looks pretty volatile, but at least the trend is up.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wages-are-accelerating-2014-10

So far, US earnings season has been remarkably favorable for stocks!

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/10/31/stocks-reacting-very-positively-to-earnings.html

And the schedule for the US week to come

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/11/schedule-for-week-of-november-2nd.html

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