Write-Offs: 12.21.11
$$$Goldman Preps for New Age of Regulation [FBN]
$$$Collapse in M&A amid debt turbulence [FT]
$$$ Money market funds are risk averse [FT]
$$$ “On my economic forecast, I drew a picture of a dragon,” other charts [WaPo]
$$$On the menu, dishes like a mix of seafood in a white wine and marinara-saffron broth served with toasted ciabatta bread are aimed at "a group that knows food," says Mr. Caron. Overall preference for the dish is "relatively low." - Every sentence in this article about Olive Garden is amazing [WSJ]
$$$Pilot in Plane Crash That Killed Greenhill Bankers Reported Ice, NTSB Says [Bloomberg]
$$$Yahoo Discussing Plan to Cut Alibaba Stake to 15% [WSJ]
$$$ You now need to be richer to invest in private placements [SEC]
$$$The speaker would like to say, ‘Look, we shouldn’t have any negativity,’ but, look, if you can’t handle the heat in this little kitchen, the heat that’s going to come from Obama’s hell’s kitchen is going to be a heck of a lot hotter. -Mitt Romney can talk trash [Bloomberg]
$$$Whatever cost a lot of money, that’s what I had. I was always a punk rocker at heart, so what I love to do is take all my friends out and just buy ‘em drinks at the cool places. It was like, ‘On me, baby!’ Share the wealth a little bit. You ever been out and you’re at some nice restaurant, and there’s this table with these guys and they’re all loud? Who are these fucking guys? They’re just dicks. Those are brokers! - Remember that guy? Lee Munson is back [Reformed Broker]