Pre-Marketing: Massive mining merger

* It's official: Glencore and Xtrata to merge

* Good governance: CalSTRS vs. Facebook

* Hypocrisy? Romney's renewable energy subsidies

* Gabriel Sherman: The end of Wall Street as they knew it

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares retreat and the Nikkei slips.

* Richard Price: The future of peer review

* Esther Dyson: Is the open web doomed?

* Rob Go: Why Series B is the "sucker round"

* Help an orphan: GigaOm may buy PaidContent

* Big prediction: The housing bottom has arrived

* Emigration generation: Irish urge their children to leave

* Felix Salmon: Greek talks descend into finger-pointing

* Gallup: America's most economically-confident states

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* Got Liquid: Photos from last week's Term Sheet reader event in Boston