About the Author Dan Denning is the author of 2005's best-selling The Bull Hunter (John Wiley & Sons). He began his financial publishing career in 1997 and has covered financial markets form Baltimore, Paris, London and, beginning in 2005 Melbourne. He's the editor of The Daily Reckoning Australia and the Publisher of Port Phillip Publishing. The Italians have a word for what may now be happening in the financial markets . It's a musical word. But sometimes you have to go outside the vocabulary of economics to describe what's going on in the world. Now is one of those times. The word is 'accelerando'. In music, it means a quickening of tempo. If you want an example, treat yourself and listen to Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2 by the composer Franz Liszt. Or, if you watched Tom and Jerry cartoons as a kid, try this . You can't listen to either version and not have a smile on your face at the end. But for the purposes of today's DR , it's the quickening of pace towards a fast finish that we're interested in. The US election is finally over, thank goodness. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is holding its 18th National People's Congress. You'll finally have some clarity on the political leadership of the world's two largest economies. With that clarity, we'd expect events to pick up some speed. But in what direction? And towards what end? Ahh yes. That's the hard part. Why don't we start with the