* 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