Write-Offs: 06.27.11
$$$Obama confident US debt deal can be struck (Reuters)
$$$ "I think keeping it low key is impossible in my position," Swiss model/JPMorgan Tchoumitcheva tweeted Friday. (NetNet)
$$$European Banks Near 70% Greek Rollover Deal (Bloomberg)
$$$Some European Insurers Could Face Heavy Losses (WSJ)
$$$The Los Angeles Dodgers, J.P. Morgan and a Pawn Shop Loan (Deal Journal)
$$$ Nassim Taleb: Greece is ‘Peanuts,’ the U.S. a ‘Time Bomb’ (MarketBeat)
$$$IMF proposes risk-based money laundering assessments (Reuters)
$$$Shilling: Why China’s Heading for a Hard Landing (Bloomberg)
$$$Blackstone asked for extra details on pay by SEC (Reuters)
$$$ Hedge Fund Rules Will Protect Investors, Moody’s Says (DealBook)
$$$Jefferies Hires Goldman Sachs’s Chadwick as Rates Sales Managing Director (Bloomberg)
$$$Lampert sells shares of AutoZone (MarketWatch)
$$$Deutsche Boerse buys leading indicator Chicago PMI (Reuters)
$$$GSV takes stake in Facebook, valuing it at $70 billion (Reuters)
$$$Lady Gaga Sued Over Japan Earthquake Relief Bracelets (Hollywood Reporter)
$$$Forget Farmville, Now You Can Sell Weed on Facebook (Mashable)