Write-Offs: 03.20.12
$$$A 'Corzine Rule' for Funds [WSJ]
$$$BofA Merrill Lynch prunes Canadian workforce [Financial Post]
$$$Fed Is Ready to Act if Europe Falters Again: Bernanke [Reuters]
$$$ Chinese prison labor is making your internet gaming whatsits [Guardian]
$$$ Surely everyone from Occupy Wall Street to Ron Paul will be convinced by this and we'll never hear about the gold standard again [BI]
$$$ One person's Op-Ed is another's opportunity? A major investment bank is currently looking to expand its equity derivatives flow desk with a senior salesperson and a senior flow trader [DBCC]
$$$ So long, BarCap [DealBook]
$$$BarCapJust Barclays thinks large European banks would have passed the US stress tests [DealBook]
$$$Santorum: "I don't care" about unemployment rate [Reuters]
$$$ "He and several colleagues were accused of selling unsuitable and overly risky investments. The case, regulatory records show, involved the stocks of Stearns & Lehman, a specialty food products company." That does sound risky. [NYT]
$$$ "The only thing that Internet Explorer is good for at all is downloading other browsers." This is true, but watch this Microsoft commercial anyway. [Matt Yglesias / Slate]