Write-Offs: 01.12.12
$$$Draghi hails ‘tentative’ stabilisation [FT]
$$$Transcripts show Fed wanted housing slowdown [FT]
$$$MF Global trustee has no plans to transfer more cash [Reuters]
$$$Deficit Panel Was 'Very Close' to Deal: Sen. Portman. Oh well. [CNBC]
$$$People Hate Goldman Sachs Less Than Last Year [Daily Intel]
$$$ Steven Rattner is just fine with Bain Capital [Politico]
$$$Potential suitors circle American Airlines [Reuters]
$$$ This will seem quaint to many of our readers but once there were financial printers and you got drunk at them [Corporate Counsel]
$$$ "'During the boom you saw everyone investing more to capture market share,' said Rantisi of 1762, a reference to the year the Earl of Sandwich supposedly asked for his meat between two pieces of bread so he could stay at the gambling table." [Bloomberg]