Write-Offs: 02.01.12
$$$Treasury may let investors pay to lend to U.S. government [Reuters]
$$$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]
