Pre-Marketing: What Sen. Warren means for banks

* Bob Lefsetz: Nate Silver and the lessons of 2012

* Merrill Lynch: Leveraged buyout comeback ahead

* Victoria Finkle: What Liz Warren’s victory means for bankers

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares rally and the Nikkei slides.

* Adam Penenberg: We need a new voting system

* PE trouble: Judge may block TCW sale to Carlyle

* Beaming up the ballots: How astronauts vote from space

* Rob Day: A modest proposal on future cleantech policy

* Daniel Gross: September jobs report was Romney’s undoing

* Arthur Levitt: Why couldn’t the NYSE weather the storm?

* Couch hero: Charles Huang wants to mobilize your living room

* Bob Lefsetz: Nate Silver and the lessons of 2012

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* Neil Irwin: What an office supply cabinet says about our economic future