$$$ Defying G.O.P., Obama Names Head of Consumer Agency [NYT]
$$$ Deutsche Bank Accepts Indicative Bids For Asset Management Operations [WSJ]
$$$ MF Global sold assets to Goldman before collapse [Reuters]
$$$ Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing [WSJ]
$$$ Kurt Vonnegut explains why your MBA costs like $150,000 [Slack Wire]
$$$ Margin Call‘s late-night meeting rendered quieter, more awkward [Slate]
$$$ Asia Hedge Funds Face a Year of Attrition [Bloomberg]
$$$ China would prefer to have more short selling [FT]
$$$ Spain sees €50bn of new bank provisions [FT]
$$$ SEC says adviser defrauded investors using LinkedIn [Reuters]
$$$ Rajat Gupta Seeks to Have Some Insider-Trading Counts Thrown Out [Bloomberg]
$$$ Dylan Ratigan’s voice “sometimes caused Mr. Bloomberg scream at him lovingly across the newsroom to ‘Shut up, Ratigan‘” [NYO]

Why does the background this morning look like a vagina?
The background looks just fine to me.
Vagina? Is that what this is?
-J Lebowski
What's with the background? What is this, MySpace?