Pre-Marketing: Office Max merging with Office Depot?

* Heidi Moore: Spotting insider trading for dummies

* Stapled: Office Max and Office Depot in merger talks

* Kickbacks, what kickbacks? Steve Rattner’s reemergence

* Hack attack: Tracing cyber break-ins back to Chinese army

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

* Sarah Butcher: How to tell your spouse you got a bad bonus

* Disruptive medicine? The coming failure of ‘Accountable Care’

* Lauren Wilson: Giving girls a startup chance in Silicon Valley

* Michael Carney: Why shoes have dominated this generation of e-commerce

* Paul Kedrosky: VC contraction is over, but accelerator contraction looms

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* Quote of the Day from Howard Marks: “You know the definition of an economist? A portfolio manager who doesn’t mark to market.”

* Tweet of the Day: @hblodget: Tech folks making common and typical mistake when laughing at NYT Tesla driver: Normal people just want things to work.