Write-Offs: 12.16.11
$$$House Approves $1T Budget Measure [Bloomberg]
$$$Moody's cuts Belgium ratings by 2 notches [Reuters]
$$$US M&A activity defies European headwinds [FT]
$$$Watch This Guy Utterly Destroy an Arcade Basketball Machine. It's mesmerizing. [Kotaku]
$$$Zynga falters in debut, sheds doubt on IPO market [Reuters]
$$$Dollar usurps gold as safe haven [FT]
$$$Sandy Weill’s Holiday Miracle: Buyer to Pay Full $88 M. for his 15 CPW penthouse [NYO]
$$$ Elsewhere, anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts [AP]