Write-Offs: 01.06.12

$$$ Paulson’s Advantage Plus Fund Drops 51% in ‘Aberrational Year’ [Bloomberg]

$$$ Corporations must be people since they fear the reaper [Slate]

$$$ “The fishing lures are purple to attract fisherman, not fish and ‘actionable ideas’ are designed to attract investors, not necessarily investment returns.” [Interloper]

$$$ If you have been convicted of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt, now you’ll have to admit it to the SEC. (Or deny it.) [NetNet]

$$$ Analyst who wouldn’t wear a wire for the FBI maybe also threatened them a little [WSJ, earlier]

$$$ Mortgage Refinancing Plan Would Harm Banks: Dick Bove [CNBC]

$$$ “Regions Financial Corp. is in advanced discussions to sell its Morgan Keegan & Co. brokerage unit to Raymond James Financial Inc. or Stifel Financial Corp.” [WSJ]

$$$ Maybe you should have majored in art history [Bloomberg]

$$$ If you bail out an industry, that industry will have been bailed out, says guy who bailed out industry [FT]

$$$ MF Global tried to enter a clearing JV with BoNY Mellon with the non-alliterative but otherwise excellent codename “Project Honeydew” [Reuters]

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