Today's miscellany

The FT continues to be the Romantic's Wall Street Journal. Stefan Stern eulogizes Studs Terkel in the FT's management blog.

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor, in short for a sort of life, rather than a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying

The Economist's Free Exchange Blog on the American elections.

You'll have to excuse us if we're a little edgy today. It's kind of like Christmas Eve, if Christmas only came once every four years, and if sometimes instead of presents you received a beating.

And a nice cartoon from Greg Mankiw