Write-Offs: 02.26.09

$$$ Buyout, Hedge-Fund Managers Could Pay $24 Billion More in Taxes [Bloomberg]
$$$Beware False Bottoms in Home Prices [MoN]
$$$SEC alerted about Stanford in 2003 [FT]
$$$ Elie Wiesel Has an Idea for How to Punish Madoff [Daily Intel]