• 21 Jul 2008 at 5:14 PM

Write-Offs: 07.21.08

$$$ Deals: Global M&A Brews 2008′s Top Week
In our M&A Roundup for the period ended July 20, four deals of more than $4 billion follow InBev/Anheuser, leading to the richest seven days in more than a year. [CFO.com]
$$$ NY gov. projects Wall St bonuses to fall 20 percent [Reuters]
$$$ CNBC Admits to Being a Closet Porn Channel [CWS]
$$$ The Chuck Norris Home Deduction [USNews]

Comments (5)

  1. Posted by guest | July 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM

    Will someone please ask the blind man if he knows what recession means?

  2. Posted by guest | July 21, 2008 at 7:01 PM

    Is this a recycled piece of news, or what? What kind of aid is Governor Paterson planning for Bear Stearns?

  3. Posted by guest | July 21, 2008 at 7:04 PM

    oh.. and i think he got the 20% figure wrong.. the immediate cash bonuses – the ones which can be taxed immediately – will be way lower than 20%… geez.. first a multiple affirmative action candidate gets underserved attention.. and then he tries to act like a smart-ass…

  4. Posted by guest | July 21, 2008 at 10:56 PM

    WB is shutting down their wholesale mortgage operations. Starting notifying managers Sunday afternoon. IndyMac did the same thing a week before they went TU.
    They report their numbers tomorrow morning.

  5. Posted by guest | July 22, 2008 at 12:22 AM

    I was just trying to relax with a birthday present from my ancient and esteemed dad, a subscription to “The Week” magazine (don’t laugh, it came along with a $25.00 personal check!), and I came to p. 42, where “Best Columns” in business journalism were reviewed.
    There, beneath a picture of Chris Cox looking more like a NYC police lieutenant than you could ever have imagined possible for a HBS grad, was a big conclusory paragraph praising John Carney’s opposition to the SEC’s crack down on rumor-mongering, as previously published in Dealbreaker.com. The column mentioned the views of Stephanie Clifford and Jenny Anderson of the New York Times, Bryan Burrough, Barry Ritholz of TheBigPicture.com, but there wasn’t a single mention of a certain ARS!
    Congratulations on the recognition for staking out an unpopular position and sticking to it, John, and for bringing the spotlight onto the website.

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