Stock-market-wise, as we fade from this emotionally excessive election cycle, there are three things I want you to focus on.

FORBES: Five Megacaps Romney And Obama Can't Touch

That means, among other things, that certainties about transatlantic dominance by particular airports and airlines are beginning to fade.

ECONOMIST: Schools and the state

The happiness you get from doing anything will fade if you do it the same way every day, so mix things up.

FORBES: How to Keep Happiness From Fading

Some hope that things will improve as the fortunes of Jan Slota, the Slovak National Party leader, fade.

ECONOMIST: Hungary and Slovakia