Write-Offs: 01.19.12
$$$Google's results fall short, rare miss pummels shares [Reuters]
$$$Hedge-Fund Investors Pull Cash [WSJ]
$$$Credit Suisse wins $7bn AIG securities auction [FT]
$$$ Actually several desks at Goldman bathe ritually in blood before their morning call. Matt Taibbi knows this. [Daily Intel, cf. John Carney/NetNet]
$$$ Only half of college lacrosse players smoke pot [Bloomberg via Deadspin]
$$$Click here to buy tickets to a Jay-Z show at Carnegie Hall (including premium seats and boxes, which include additional access and perks, including pre- and post-show receptions and access to the after party at the 40/40 Club) that benefits the United Way of New York City and the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation.
$$$Is the Porn Industry Imperiled? [CNBC]
$$$SocGen, BNP Job Cuts Reflect Wilting Ambitions of Paris Banks [Bloomberg]
$$$ More things Mitt Romney invented [WSJ, earlier, also earlier]
$$$ Like private equity partners, junior law firm associates sometimes retrade [NetNet]
$$$ Everyone has a favorite strange Bloomberg headline. "George Washington Wine Cooler Sells for $782,500 at Christie’s" is mine. [Bloomberg]