$$$ Gorman Gets a Big Bump in Base Salary [DealBook]
$$$ Wasendorf Gets 50 Years [WSJ]
$$$ Suit reveals new details of Paulson’s role in Goldman Abacus CDO [Reuters]
$$$ Tony James thinks private equity should maybe be renamed “clarity equity” [DealBook]
$$$ Tony James also thinks that “the hot credit markets are more of a negative” for private equity [Fortune]
$$$ No, Obama Will Not Tear Down Reagan’s Childhood Home Brick by Brick [DI]
$$$ World Class PhD Modellers – New Jersey – Hedge Fund – say no more [DBCC]
$$$ U.S. Sues to Halt Takeover of Modelo [WSJ]
$$$ Monte Paschi Rating Cut as Probe Digs Deeper Into Losses [Bloomberg]
$$$ “Very few people live their lives with wealth-maximization as their exclusive goal, and if Zuckerberg doesn’t want to maximize Facebook’s financial value nobody can make him.” [Slate / Matt Yglesias]
$$$ The perpetualisation of debt [FTAV]
$$$ No-Fun Mississippi House Bill Seeks to Outlaw Animal-Human Hybrids [BetaBeat]