$$$Treasury may let investors pay to lend to U.S. government [Reuters]

$$$Deutsche Börse-NYSE merger blocked [FT]

$$$Falcone Brawls With Grassley Over LightSquared [DealBook]

$$$Tepper protégé forges new fund [AR]

$$$ Bloomberg restaurant critic Ryan Sutton: "I have a pretty high-end clientele, but no one asks me, 'What's the most expensive restaurant in New York and how can I spend more money there?'" Get to work on that. [IBTimes]

$$$U.K. Men Admit to London Stock Exchange Bomb Plot [WSJ]

$$$ Iran threatens currency speculators with the death penalty [WaPo]

$$$ How Eric Cantor will kill the ban on Congressional insider trading [Professor Bainbridge]

$$$Allen Stanford used CD funds for cricket, jets [Reuters]

$$$Queens 'Catwoman' caged for 10 years for store stick-ups [NYP]