Write-Offs: 01.27.12
$$$Citi to Cut Bonuses in Investment Bank About 30% [Bloomberg]
$$$Fitch Cuts Italian, Spanish Ratings [Bloomberg]
$$$Goldman's Blankfein gets stock from prior award [MarketWatch]
$$$EU avoided ‘major, major credit crunch’ [FT]
$$$Proposed Mortgage Deal Said to Be Limited to Foreclosures [Bloomberg]
$$$ Every self-important anonymous jerk who can't handle rejection is supposedly a "hedge fund manager" [Gawker]
$$$ Except this guy: Jilted City banker ‘bought crossbows and gun and disguised himself as a doctor to launch deadly attack on lover who spurned him’ [Daily Mail via BI]
$$$Citigroup Exits Proprietary Trading [Bloomberg]
$$$F.B.I. Searches Offices of N.Y. Adviser on Chinese Reverse Mergers [DealBook]
$$$Geithner: China's System 'Damaging' to Trade Partners [WSJ]
$$$Mets Owners Ask Judge to Dismiss Madoff Trustee’s Claims [Bloomberg]
$$$Ten word investing philosophies; Dealbreaker's is "only trade on inside information / this is not legal advice" [Total Return via AR]
$$$Ice-T: Hillary Clinton A 'G,' Will Be First Woman President [HuffPo]