Write-Offs: 04.16.12
$$$Argentina to Seize Control of Oil Firm [WSJ]
$$$World Bank picks Kim as next head [FT]
$$$Coty Tries to Rally Support for Avon Bid Amid Skepticism [DealBook]
$$$Brazil Cannibal Empanadas: Brazilian Women Murdered, Eaten And Made Into Human Pastries [HuffPo, congrats on the Pulitzer]
$$$ PIMCO is looking to fill tax manager positions - in regulated and private funds - in Newport Beach [DBCC]
$$$New York Jets All-Pro D'Brickashaw Ferguson, will be on Wall Street (Exchange Place and Broad Street) at 3:45pm tomorrow as part of The Decathlon 2012. Ferguson will be demonstrating how The Decathlon uses performance-based donating ('charitybets') to raise money to support Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He'll be charitybetting on any Wall Streeter to come out and participate in a Vertical Jump contest. Ferguson will have a Vertec (devise used at the NFL Combine to test vertical leaping) and a few thousand dollars - CASH - to donate to MSKCC. Jump 24-inches, Ferguson donates $100. Jump $26-inches, Ferguson donates $200. And so on and so forth. Registration for The Decathlon 2012 opens Tuesday, April 17th. The event is on Sunday, July 29th at Columbia University's Wien Stadium.
$$$For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start [NYT]
$$$Following Other People's Stock Picks Just Got Easierbut why? [Bloomberg]
$$$What is Carney talking about? [Reuters / Ben Walsh]
$$$ECB staff demand inflation protection [Money Supply]
$$$Rock Out With Your Cock Out: Penis Warmers Are Now a Thing [Fashionista]