Write-Offs: 06.09.10

$$$A World Cup Drinking Challenge [WSJ]

$$$ Neuberger Berman, proudly private, seeks an IPO [Reuters]

$$$Economist Edward Hugh Gets His Close-up [Daily Intel]

$$$Is a $20 bet too steep for entrance into a World Cup pool? Felix Salmon does the math. (The one I was going to do is $100...So I hope the answer is no.) [Reuters]

$$$People Ask Ace Greenberg To Kill Their Deer All The Time [NYO]

$$$Bill Thomas: "I hope people understand that no matter how much any Goldman Sachs spokesperson says that they’re working with us, they aren’t. Otherwise we wouldn’t have issued the subpoena.” [Bloomberg]