Pre-Marketing: Has default already begun?

* Clash of the Clans: Supercell raises $1.5 billion

* Shutdown: What’s an economist to do without gov’t data?

* Morning Call: U.S. futures up, Europe rises and Japan climbs.

* Believe: BlackBerry’s open letter to customers

* World Wide what? The fake online traffic epidemic

* RIP NY Post? A premature tabloid autopsy

* Jim Braude: The case for a four-day workweek

* Big deal: PE firm to buy Siemens water tech unit

* Best year ever: Vermont maple syrup’s massive 2013 yield

* Upscale target: Apple poaches next retail chief from Burberry

* Carmel Diamicis: Are subscriptions the future of crowdfunding?

*  Claudia Goldin: Can ‘Yellin Effect draw young women to economics?

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